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Location 15 44' N - 166 54' W at 1200 hours
Observer Gould, Harrington, Date 09 Oct., 1866 Time 0654 to 1857
Weather Balcomb, Lewis Miles 165 Hours 12.1
SPECIES NUMBERS REMARKS
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 45 29 Light; 2 Int.; 5 Dark
Sooty Shearwater ? 22 showing white underwing
Slender-billed Shearwater ? 23 showing no white underwing
Christmas Island Shearwater 1
Newell's Shearwater
Juan Fernandez Petrel 82
White-necked Petrel 3
Kermadec Petrel
Phoenix Island Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bonin Island Petrel
Black-winged Petrel 21
Bulwer's Petrel 4
Leach's Storm Petrel ? 1
Red-tailed Tropicbird 2
White-tailed Tropicbird
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Great Frigatebird
Lesser Frigatebird
Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sooty Tern 172
Gray-backed Tern
Common Noddy Tern
Fairy Tern 1
Pomarine Jaeger 2
Spotted Sandpip. 1 collected
P. externa 9
P. hypoleuca 1
Pterodroma 9
Frigatebird 3
Shorebird 1
Shear.-Pet. 190 Total Birds 600
Bird 7 Total Sightings
Total Flocks 11
WHALES, SPERM 2 Total Species 13
ST-MNH-11-1-66