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SI-MNB-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE 23 March
Pg.# 2
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0758 Sooty Tern 2
Wedgetail
0759 Sooty Shearwater 1 N ST 5/3
0759 Wedgetail 1 W 54/26
SS 2/2
cN 1
RFB 1
0800 Common Noddy 1 N SSP 2/2
0801 Wedgetail 3 dark phase P 5/4
Red-footed B. 1 Ad SP 4/4
0801 Sooty St. Pet. 1 HN 5/2
0802 Wedgetail 2
0802 Shearwater 1
0802 Wedgetail 1
0804 " 2
0805 " 2
0806 " 1.
0807 "
0810 Blackfoot Alb. 6 in sight following
0811 Wedgetail 3 to port
0813 " 2 NW
0815 Storm Petrel 1 light rump + light patches on undersides of wings (?)
0816 Wedgetail 2
0816 Sooty St. Petrel 1 W
0817 Wedgetail 2 NW
0818 Wedgetail 4 WNW low loose, not really together, but I'm tired of writin' em separately!
0820 Sooty (?) Shear. 1 W
0820 Wedgetail 1 W
0822 " 3 W
0827 Storm Petrel 1 W seems all dark
0823 Wedgetail 4 E-W loose
0824 Sooty Tern 1 NW
0824 Haw. Noddy 4 "
0824 Sooty Shear 1 "
0825 Wedgie 2 W
0826 " 3 W
0827 Storm Petrel 1 seems all dark
0827 Wedgetail 2
0828 Storm Petrel 1 seems all dark but dist. far, day dark
0830 Sooty Tern 2 E?
0832 Shearwater 2 WNW
0833 Wedgetail 1 "
0833 Haw. Noddy ? 1 low
0834 Wedgetail 2 W
0835 Wedgetail 3
0836 Shearwater 1 one arc + goddam bird vanishes!
0838 Wedgetail 3 one dark phase - not together
0839 " 1
0840 " 1 WNW