SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG — E DATE 23 Apr 65 Pg.# N W E S time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0540 [illegible]? 0545 Begin observations 0600 Juan Fernandez? 1 ratty brooding body plumage Rutilus sp. 0610 JFP 1 NW 0657 Sooty Shear 0658 Leach's P 0717 JFP 1 0722 JFP 1 0724 [illegible]? 2 3 0729 shear/petrel 1 0753 J F Petrel 1 S 0817 Leach's St. Pet. 1 0819 J.F. Petrel 2 up from water 0822 Wedgetail 1 0825 Leach's St. Pet. 1 0835 Leach's St. Pet. 1 0837 Blue-face Booby 1 N 0905 Sooty Tern 1 W 0935 Leach's St. Petrel 1 0943 J.F. Petrel 1 1004 Sooty(?) Shearwater 1 NW 1010 Sooty Shear 1 NW 1017 shear/petrel 1 1025 Sooty Tern 1 1035 Leach's P 1 1045 shear/petrel 1 1047 JFP 1 1105 Dabbermug P. 1 1135 Sooty Tern 1 1137 RTTB 1 1146 shear/petrel 1 noon Leach's S.P. 2 E 1255 Sooty Tern 2 E 1258 Sooty Tern 2025 3 Shear/Petrels 552 1315 Sooty Tern 40 ±10 1328 Wedgetail 1 S J.F. Petrel 1 1400 Sooty Tern 25 ± 2 body molt on both fairly broad white nape on one hood above, white helm - upper breast not seen - longer chumby - not JFP or Wedgetail light phase imm. Flashes from water by ship carrying 12" long squid (?) in back. sits down 100' away White underparts large mottled brown bars, almost no dark underwing edge. flushed from water - dark back, thick black underwing edges Dropped first - seemed to avoid ship more determinedly flushed medium - dark above, white below Feeding Flock in dist. maybe other things too, feeding, too damn far light feeding