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R.D.Brown
1468
2705/1820 Turn ad 8° beams + a Soddy Ten drive
an audubon for 11 seconds - unsuccessful.
1824 Thru ad 8° beams, drain an audubon,
for ~16 seconds, successful.
1827 3 ad 8° frigate, accompanies by 3 C. noddis
drive a W. dyed tid for some 8 seconds - success-
ful, but I could not determine whether a
frigate or a noddis got the soothe.
1824 4 ad 8° beams, drive an audubon,
for some 15 seconds, send it splashing
into the water & then they rose, about
then a noddis chased the audubon for some
15-20 yds when it rose from the water.
1827 4 ad 8° beams driving in, mixed
combination, 2 audubons - finally one got
away - other shared squid it damaged - two
C. noddis got in the fray about and way and
leaped in to get the dropped food, but then
the frigates beat them to it - both noddis
were chasing the 2nd audubon as actively
as the frigates.
1829 2 frigate and a noddis drives an
audubon, at dragging, and one of the
frigates drops to eat it, other frigate rises.
C. noddis still continues to drive audubon
for about 30 yds.
1831 1 frigate and 3 noddis, driving an audubon
and it ended in a mad thrashing on the surface,
Didn't know what happened.
1833 I weary of this game and yet no getting
too deck to see clearly. In all the above
chases, concerning tennes, one thing strikes
clear in that at ten, either noddis or soddy,
was ever noted to initiate a chase. Only
after one or more frigates had started the
chase would one or more tennes join in, but
the noddis regularly chased the prey hard
after the frigates had quit.