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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
R J Gould
Sunrise = 06025 Date 18 July 1967
Begin Observing = 0600
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0700 Small
Pheodorn 1 - SW
0730
To
0745
20
[illegible]
Flying Fish are extremely
abundant today - many large
(several hundred per school) schools.
For more than an hour, the very clear
signs of flying of the birds.
0755 Small
Pterodrom
white-throated
or white-
beakled Petrel 2 - SW5
1 - SW5
0810 white-
throated
Stom Petrel 2 - [illegible]
both well seen, while there, both
chest fond - both kicking off of water
seeing both feet at the same time.
0820 "" 1 - [illegible]
0827 "" 1 - [illegible]
0840 "" 1 - [illegible]
very close - very Patch heavily
suffered of Brown - bud probably
molting
0909 Storm Petrel 1 - SW7
0915 Pheodorn 3 - SW white belly
1003 white-throated
Storm Petrel 4 - SW5
1011 "" 2 - SW5
1019 Storm Petrel 1 - [illegible]
1020 white-throated
Storm Petrel 1 - SW4
1021 Peale's Petrel 1 - Flying by settle on H2O with wings upraised
and head dabbling in H2O [illegible]
1029 "" 1 - W3E
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66