Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 25 - continued 1 and the sea subsided slightly, but the large swells from the northwest continued to roll in on us from the horizon; at 1:25 an immature Red-tailed Tropicbird was collected and at 1:40 an immature Blue-faced Booby was collected; the Booby's weight tore out the remaining netting from a near-ridden long pole net and the Booby escaped the first pass of the ship - this must have given him courage, because on the next pass he swam out of reach of the net - he was shot four more times before he succumbed and was brought aboard; at 2:50 an adult White-tailed Tropicbird was collected; the crew is now beginning to count the minutes lost in picking up birds: to add fuel to the fire, a Bonin type Petrel (tentatively identified as a Cook's Petrel) was collected at 4:20 and another immature Blue-faced Booby was collected at 5:00; the watch was secured at 5:35 and the crew looked forward to a night's headway toward Honolulu without delay; I discovered this evening that several of the now larger turtles have completely lost the umbilical scar and the edges of the plastron plates meet at a juncture - s one of the smaller turtles still have the vestige: the second movie was again replaced by cards tonight - however, tonight the sea was rougher and we had to contend with our being slid and tossed around as much as we did with bad cards; we lost another hour tonight.