Species Accounts - Grid Laysan Albatross Diomedea immutabilis # Obs. = 0 No Laysans were observed during the survey. Black-footed Albatross Diomedea nigripes # Obs. = 8 The extremely low density (lowest of all surveys) is curious but not entirely unexpected. Total numbers reached a peak in early December (see EGS #18), then dropped markedly over the two subsequent surveys (EGS #19 and the present survey). EGS #1 and #2 showed a similar rapid decline from late January to February in 1967. Black-feets were recorded from only three subdivisions, R, X, and Z. I would hazard a guess that this scanty information suggests that birds have shifted to the south. All eight birds were dark-rumped individuals. Fulmar Fulmar glacialis # Obs. = 30 .08 .17 0 .02 0 Birds/linear mile 0 0 .01 Fulmar numbers on the overall Grid do not appear to have dropped significantly as yet, although the density peak has shifted even more to the north (first noted in late December). Ninety-three percent of the birds were seen in the north half with over 50 percent being recorded in section "T." Of the 28 birds with color phase recorded 25 (90 percent) were dark and one each light, intermediate, and "double dark" (see Harrington EGS winter '67 reports). Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus # Obs. = 1 After the secondary migration peak noted in late November (see EGS #17) Grid numbers have dropped markedly and regularly. Southward movement evidently had all but ceased by mid-December and the distribution suggests a crowding of birds toward the coast. I suspect a small population of birds winters close to the coast during the northern winter. In addition to the single positive identification in area Z, some of the 10 incompletely identified shearwater/petrels may very well have been this species. Herald/Kermadec Petrel # Obs. = 1 A light-phase bird, probably one or the other of the above-named, was observed in section "R" on 5 January. Fork-tailed Petrel Oceanodroma furcata # Obs. = 38 0 0 35 3 0 0 0 0. 0 # Observed in each section