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DATE 21 july 64
Pg.# 2
SE S SW
E
NE N NW
N
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
1316 [illegible]
Shear/petrel X 1 SW
All dark underwings except for narrow (very narrow) white strip in middle of wing. No dark breast band, no black on head or back that could be seen. Flys like a cross between Bonin's
Parsa D.R. Petrel. About the size of a D.R. but a little smaller.
Body was white.
1330 Wedgetail 2 SW
1335 Dark R.P.
Wedgetail 2 SE
Collected by Husted # 0509 1.05lbs.
Parks.
1342 Sooty Terns 2 S
1416 D.R. Petrel 1 SE
75±10
1450 Sooty Tern
Wedgetail
Sooty Petrel
Dark-rumped 1 E
1451 Dark-rumped 1 E
Frigate bird
Bourke's P 1
with feeding flock
1630 [illegible]
Bonin's P 1 S
Very small, white underwings, flies like Bonin's, may have been a small Bonin's H.
Dark @? light?
Travelling
1636 Wedgetail 3 SW
D.R. Petrel 2
Sooty Terns 3
1640 Bonin's P 1 SE
Sitting on water
1644 B.T. Tripeloid 1 SE
sitting on water
1735 Red-tiled Tropic 1
1841 Dardo-trumpet P 2 NW
1844 Bonin's P 1 W
1850 Shear/petrel 1 W
1900 Shear/petrel 1 S
1916 end observations