270 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: Date 17 Oct 67 Pg.# 1 Ship Direction SPECIMEN or TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0704 0716 22 N. Phalarope 2 ca 34 Tern 1 E 37 N. Phal 14 cee 44 Alcid 2 ca 47 0812 BFA (1) 0816 0825 0832 Scoty sh 1 SW 0910 0940 0915 Gull? 1 cee large white bird, dark wings particularly toward tips - Underwings white - Alternately sitting and flying low to water - back in ship's wake - nearly as large as BFA also following. Wing flapping continuous - gull-like, not like albatross or shearwater. 1029 Red Phalarope 7 cee 1033 Pom? Jaeger 1 SE 1040 1124 Herring? Gull 1 1132 Storm petrel 2 W 1146 1200 Phalarope 1 cee 1207 1410 BPA (1) cee 1411 12 N. Phal 20 ceee 1430 Right whale Dolphins (35) Begin Observation Bairds Dolphin 3 ridin Bowwave Dolphin sp. (Poddy Baird) 100 ±15 3500 122-45 RWD-Lissodelphis borealis Baird-Delphinus delphis Bairdi Porpuiria 15+3 35-00 122-53 following - narrow white rump band Shift in water - Chandler +2 35-00 122-58 Right whale dolphin -100t - in tight line travelling west - up to 40 in view at once. Small, black, no dorsal fin. - In view about 20 mins. from shift shift clead in water - begin maneuver to recover shift shift recovered Flushed from water - non-br. plumage Dark ph - Pomarine rel. 2. - large, heavy flight. 35-00 123-15 Gray whale - surfacing, blowing, finally diving showing flukes. Not seen thereafter. "Humpy" in back at beginning of dive was not quite pronounced enough for humpback. Probably possibly Eschrichtius gibbosus immature - 1st yr. Herring? Western. - Herring rel. 2 rather uniform brown. Following ship hour - Arrived S.West. Paralleling ship at good distance together. Enter Heavy Fog Visibility 300 ft. or less called Nutsem Close observations open Following ship out to Non Brody Phlange Dolphins ?(5) with dorsal long-snouted vode Bow wave 25 minutes Photographed T.J. 34 59 124-04 SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66