Wind- 20-25 knots. Sky: Overcast 9/10t. Sea: about 8 foot swells, white caps. 27 July 1964 STARTED WATCH 0820 0823 NE 1 Bonin Is. Type Petrel 0826 NW 2 Wedge Tail Shearwater 0826 NW 1 Shearwater Dark above white below 0845 SE 1 Bonin Island Petrel 0909 SW 2 Wedge-tail Shearwater ? 0924 SW 2 Bonin Island Petrel 0955 NE 1 Wedge-Tail Shearwater 0956 — 1 Bird up- on horizon to west—just caught a glimpse of it. 1007 E 1 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1007 SE 1 Pterodroma sp.—distant 1010 NW 1 Bonin Island Petrel 1101 NW 1 Bonin Island Petrel 1130 N 1 White-necked Petrel 1250 NE 4% Pupinus sp. all dark. 1250 NE 2 Tern (Sooty?) (1300/1330 Secured watch to prepare for) heavy weather — tie down gear, etc.) 1340 SE 1 Like Cook's Petrel without "W" marking on back — about 2X the size 1447 NE 1 dark Wedgetail 1450 NE 1 dark Wedgetail (manbird?) 1454 N 1 Bonin Island type 1514 N 1 Bonin Island type 1530 NE 1 dark Wedgetail. 1532 NW 1 Gould's Petrel ? 1120. Crossed bow of ship fairly close. 1st description of white-necked Petrel on 0800 27 July. Even sails on watch saw white collar without femorular, black cap; black patch around eye, prominent white collar, back bluish, wings dark brown, white underwings, wings white with black border. 9.8