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TABLE 9. Specimens Collected on Eastern Area Cruise No. 36.
Species Number Collected
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) 1
Townsend's Shearwater. (Puffinus puffinus auricularis) 1
Sooty Shearwater (Puffimus griseus) 1
Slender-billed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) 1
Juan Fernandez Petrel (Pterodroma externa externa) 2
Dark-rumped Petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia ?) 1
Leach's Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) (at least 112
two races)
Galapagos Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma tethys) 13
Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) 1
Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) 5
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) 1
Magnificent Frigatebird ? (Fregata magnificens) 1
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) 5
Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus) 1
Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) 1
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) 1
Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata) 1
TOTAL 149
100 of these were prepared as study skins during the cruise;
49 were kept as frozen specimens to be sent to Wash.