DATE 19Mar64 Pg.# 1 NNE NE E SE S SW W NW N E S W time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc. 0630 observation begun 0645 BLIP Bonnie Petrel? BLIP? 0715 Bonnie Isl(?) Petrel 1 S 0813 Red-tailed T.B. 1 0844 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 1 SW WT to 10ft light phase 1006 Fairy tern 1 E 25ft 1000+ off starboard 1034 Tern, ? Noddly? 1 S 25ft all dark, either young Sooty or Noddy, probably latter size not spotted - pozzed over bow. 1145 Christmas Island Shearwater? 1 N 2-5ft medium sized all dark shearwater, 250 off bow flapped or stiff wings, did not bank steeply flaps + glide pattern more typically shearwater than is adopted but not with long arcs like Noddy or Sooty Shearwaters - not so humpy, unmushed flight 1215 Sooty Shearwater 1 N 2-5ft silver underwing linings seen. otherwise comparable to above 1221 Sooty Shear? 1 N 2-10 further off bow, not as clearly seen, but perhaps first of silver - arced more 1314 Red-tailed T.B. 1 E 605ft imm. with short central tail feathers 1345 Sooty(? Shearwater 1 N 5ft dark back seen but NOT underparts as bird passed 50 ft off bow of ship 1435 Harcourt's Storm Petrel 1 S WT to 5ft 200yds. off starboard 1436 Shearwater/ petrel 1 N seen by watch 1504 Jaeger, Pom? 1 N 25ft close off port - large, gull-eyed - brown dorsally, light ventrally with light bars in dorsal wing surface [illegible] seemed for too large for Pom. same D. light phase 1506 Wedgetails. 1 S 1552 [illegible] Storm Petrel 1 E 150 off starboard - light pattern on dorsal wing surface noted