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Ship Direction
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
P. Gould
Date 10 July 1967
Pg.# 1
SPECIMEN
or
specimen = 0522
Begin Observation = 0635
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
0635 Flock
Booby
Tern
Shearwater
2 0±5
2 0±10
2 ±20
175
actively feeding
Probably Brown Booby
Probably Sooty Tern
These birds were right sign for Mant.
0714 Flock
Shearwater
2 4±2 ©
[0650 - 0710 = rain squall]
Few like & was right sign & shape for Mant
Probably feeding
0730 Parakeet
Long-tailed
Gull
1 - ©
0740 Mant
Shearwater
1 - ©
0746
TO
0758
no
obs.
0805 Booby
1 - →
0808 Mant
Shearwater
3 - ↓
0809 Brown
Booby
1 - →
0812 ""
1 - →
0914 ""
1 - →
0915 Frigatebird
1 - →
0918 Brown Booby
1 - ↓
0919 Many Shearwater
1 - ↓
0820 ""
6 - ↓
0824 ""
3 - →
on 4:20
0829 ""
2 - ←
0830 ""
1 - ←
circling then lit, one by one, near each other
on water
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66