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Ship
Direction
300
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
SPECIMEN
or
OBSERVERS:
Crass, is
Date 31 March 68
Pg.# 1
TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS
leave Manzanillo 0900
1245 Begin Obs.
1247 Phalarope Sp. 1 NW
1248 Br. Pelican 1 N
1250 Br. Booby 3 2 ad., 1 Imm., feeding.
FF 1300 Br. Booby 500+ practically all ads, actually no accurate count
South Tern 9+ ad. possible, as birds too scattered.
Laughing Gull 200+ all feeding in scattered groups over
Bl-tuikted Petrel 11+ water or sail-fish - about 13 of these
seen.
FF 1307 Brown Booby 12 ads} feeding over shark
South Tern 11 ad's
FF 1315 Br. Booby 8 ads. Feeding over 4 sail fish
SF 1317 " " 6 ad., sitting on #60.
TF 1318 Phalarope Sp. 11 NW
FF 1322 Br. Booby 14 over fish, but too far out to tell what kind.
Laughing Gull 25+
1331 Br. Booby 1 NW ad.
TF 1342 " " 9 NW ads.
1345 close Obs.
1645 open obs.
1646 1 whale, only sport seen
TF 1655 South Tern 6 NW ad's.
1703 Phalarope Sp. 1 NW
1705 South Tern 1 NW ad.
FC 1712 Dr. Bombay 19 ad
South Tern 37 ad. no fish rested, but fairly far out
Pom Jaeger 1 dk ph.
Phalarope Sp. 2
SI-MNH-958-e
Rev. 5-66