SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG — E DATE 11 Apr 65 Pg. # 3 E 5E S NE N NW N time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 1235 Sooty Shearw. 2 1240 1246 1247 Bulwer's Petrel 1 N 1251 Wedgetail 1 1252 1300 Christmas Island Sh. 1 NW 1302 Wedgetail 1 1308 Wedgetail 1 1312 Christmas Is Shear 1 1320 Shear/Petrel 1 Fairy Tern 1323 Wedgetail 1 Shear/Petrel 1330 shearwater 1 W 1341 Common Noddy 2 1342 1347 Wedgetail 1 1348 Wedgetail 1 1352 Noddy? 4 1364 Leach's P. 1 1417 Wedgetail 1 1422 Sooty Shear 1 NE 1430 Pom. Jaeger 1 1434 Leach's P. 1 1445 BFA 1 1447 Noddy Tern 1 1452 Noddy Tern 1 1524 Storm Petrel 1 S — flying very direct as if going somewhere 1530 1535 Sooty Tern 2 S — large white rump patch. Seemed large 1536 St. Petrel 1 — Precisely the same, brownish on top with lighter brown wing stripe 1610 Sooty Tern 5 Common Noddy 2 Wedgetail 4 Red-foot Booby 2 Newell's Shear. 2 Pomarine Jaeger 2 1615 Sooty Tern 5 dard flew similar to Sooty S. but with white underparts no flaps, just arcs + glides or stiff wings. flight directional may have been Hawaiian Noddies intermediate dard this one wandering around more as they usually do feeding flock just beyond where fisherman have set at a lay net the Newells were sitting on water or were 2 Wedgetails the jaeger seemed to be passing through we are SW of Barber's Point going to join flock