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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
OBSERVERS:
Date 14 April 68
Pg.# 1
TIME SPECIES # DIR.
SPECIMEN
or
BAND NO. REMARKS
0550-0600 Blue [illegible] whales. 5 or 6 huge animals 60 ft + - 15ft Dark brown color, very small fin set far back on body, body very wide with high rounded backs, 16.1°C
0650 Lays. off Thurloe head 506 27°28'N - 114°49'n 5 mi off Puerto Hermosa Translune concentrations of Scotty Shear, B & W Petrel, Gulls, Xantus Murlets Cassins Auklets, Gulls, Mew shear. Scots shearwater dove when ship approached.
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66