B.C.F. TOWNSAND CROMWELL MARCH 1961 CRUISE The April Townsend Cromwell cruise was the third in a series of cruises run by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Bureau of Commercial Fisheries covering a fixed grid area to the east of the main Hawaiian Islands for the purpose of charting the oceanographic climate of this area. The April cruise ran from 12 April to 1 May, covering approximately 1500 miles in 21 days. Project personnel, who maintained diurnal bird observations throughout the cruise, included David Bratley and Warren King. Project personnel also assisted in making six-hour weather observations and in taking bathythermograph traces. An attempt will be made to synthesize oceanographic data with the incidence of bird sightings as soon as the oceanographic becomes available.