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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG — E
DATE /3VE(EN BER
Pg.# 2
NW
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
0905 Pink-sooted?
Shearwater 1 SW light below & indewing with sort of slate
backer
0905 Small 6ind 1 —— stormpetrel? light 6ad
0915 Storm Petrel 1 NW distant spoon sight - Very light flight without
sheliry (curtful flapping) Not leachly flight
but bird appears to be near book's size -
0923 Sooty Shear. 1 SW/SE SE
0948 Sooty ?Shear 1 SW
1003 Sooty Shea 1 S
1010 Shear pch 1 E
1013 ——
1015 Sooty Shea 1 SW Seal (either fur seal or Cal. Sea Lion.)
1035 Storm Petrel 1 SSW
1042 StormPetrel 1 SSSW good white rumped bird. Flew
rather straight with little butterfly-
like movement. Possible Shear.
1043 Ankle t 1 SW Cassino (probable) Not real large
but showed the dusky neck & shoulder.
1045 Sooty Shwan 1 S
1052 Sooty Shean 1 S
1053 —— in heavy fog
1100 Herring gulls
paul on
B-F A l k i t n s 4 SW/SE following ship -
1115 Sooty Shear 1 SW fog clearing
1120 Sooty Shean 1 SW
1125 Shearwater 1 S
1137 Sooty Shean. 1 SW
1145 Pink-footed?
Shearwater 1 ——
1146 Shearwater ——
1147 White-rump
Storm-Petrel 1 light constant wing beat
1148 Cassino Avielt 1 on water