1965 1st day out Honolulu, Hawaii 20°45'N; 159°25'W 7 September Leave Honolulu 1015 aboard Shoarwater with crew of 9. Started picking up "Newell's" Shearwaters after leaving the harbour complex, and shortly afterwards, Sooty Shearwaters. Continuous sightings of both these species through- out early afternoon. All sightings so far (1020) have been in a westerly direction for the Sooty Shearwaters. The predominance of Newell's were headed North. Bulmer's Petrels are scattered intermittently with no prevailing direction of flight. A few Black-billed showing up. Very few terns, three mainly Noddies. Most Sooty Shearwaters are moving in fast direct flight with very little sustained sliding - the flight being a series of strong flaps. Woodward says this is not typical flight. A few were noted making high arcs and moving along with bill flapping. These were noted settling on 200 with 3 Bulmer's. One Black-winged Petrel seen. Scattered Bulmer's Petrels and mostly continuous sightings of Sooty Shear- and Newell's Shear for Remainder B Day. Total of 556 birds. Shearwater- Petrel predominant (330). Total of 14 species. 1965 2nd day out Honolulu 20°01'N, 161°14'W - 17°2'N; 163°20' 8 September Sunrise to 7:40 - scattered but fairly numerous sightings - Wedgetails, Sooty terns, lower number of Newell's Shear + Sooty than - a few Phippsiae and one White-necked A at very close range. 7:40 > Relatively few Sooty Shearwaters, & compared to yesterday. The number of Newell's dropped drastically also. Sooty terns, however, increased remarkably by over yesterday, and accounted for over half of the total which = 2219. A few enormous feeding flocks brought the total up to 3 times as many birds as yesterday. One flock of 1367 birds at 1700 comprised roughly of 50% St., 50% wedgetail was investigated quite thoroughly by running the ship into it and following. The majority of terns scattered off, but wedgetails continued feeding with not much concern for the ship. Large numbers would congregate and settle on the 80, advancing slowly by portions lifting off the 400 a few feet and settling back. Wedgetails which were scattered about and occasional Sooty terns would advance rapidly toward such milling segments of the flocks. Also were seen jumping on several occasions; flying fish were also flushing quite abundantly. Two orange streaked Sooty Terns were recorded today.