2 Section "D" Grid to Long Beach 29-30 July Departed Grid area at 0830 hours 29 July. Eleven hours of observation 0-100 miles east of the Grid on 29 July, and 1.1 hours between Santa Catalina and Long Beach on 30 July constitute this section (see Figure #2). Section "A" Hawaiian Area: During 12.4 hours (100 miles) of diurnal observations on 10 and 11 July, 620 birds of 10 species were observed. Sooty Terns, Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, and Common Noddies were the dominant species accounting for 97 percent of the birds in this section. Several large feeding flocks were seen on the 11th, 100-200 miles from land. (See non-Grid Table #2 for summary.) SPECIES ACCOUNTS Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) # Obs. = 83 % Section total = 13.4 Wedge-tails were abundant on 10 July when passing 10-30 miles north of Molokai, and were regular in the Sooty Tern flocks on 11 July. All birds observed were light-phase. Newell's Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus newelli) # Obs. = 2 Two Newell's were seen alone on 10 July. Black-winged Petrel # Obs. = 2 Small Pterodroma sp. # Obs. = 5 Pterodroma externa # Obs. = 1 Pterodroma sp. # Obs. = 2 The above sightings were all made on the second day out. One small Pterodroma was thought to be a White-winged Petrel, but probably most of the small birds were P. hypoleuca. No Bonin-type birds were observed. The P. externa was probably a Juan Fernandez. Dark-rumped Petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia) # Obs. = 1 A bird tentatively assigned to this species was seen north of Molokai on 10 July. Bulwer (?) Petrel (Bulweria bulweriae) # Obs. = 1 A single large all-dark petrel seen in a Sooty Tern flock on 11 June was probably this species. It was not observed well enough to rule out the possibility of Sooty Storm Petrel.