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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SSW
ESE JE S SW WNW
E NE N NNE
ENE NW
NNE
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE 8 Oct 1964
Pg.# 2
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1220 Collared type 1 SE Low Collar & Thk nump not clearly visible - wing design clear [illegible] almost black translucent grey [illegible]
1232 Cook's 1 ENE Low
1240 Shear-Pet 1 N Low
1240 Wedgetail 1 CB Low Feeding. Would fly around - much flapping low and then plunging into 1/2 o and then coming repeated several times. Dal phase.
1332 Bulwark 1 W "
1339 Harcourt's St Pet 1 NE "
1355 R-T Tropic 1 SSW 90' Black speckles on abdomen, yellow-orange tail.
1407 Shear-Pet 1 SW Low
1428 Cook's 1 SSW "
1428 Harcourt's St Pet 1 SSW "
1442 W-n Peticl 1 SW Low
1503 Collar type 1 SWS " Breast area almost black (~2/3 of body length); tail area underneath very light, sharply differentiated from black area; black eye + bill; underside of wings darker than above.
1527 Stercoraria sp. 1 SW "
1549 Shear-Petrel 1 NNE Low
1545 Sooty Shearwater 2 SSE Low
1611 " 1 SW "
1730 [illegible] Peticl 1 SSW Low
1730 watch stopped - (corset to wind)
T.S. T.B.
17 18
Shear-Pet
T W P B T W P E
15.1-7.1. 16.1-7.1.
other
Tropicbird 1/4