ATF/SIC 6, Lipan, October-December 1964
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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