Alaska field notes, v1299
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349 Gilmore PACIFIC FULMAR O 1931 an occasional bird or two will pick up the ship and follow it for some distance. Perhaps a dozen or more have been thus been encountered in the last two days. Last one seen was just off Point Reyes. Invariably the birds are dark plumaged. E.D. Notes from Commander Jones - Captain of the Cutter "Northland". 1. Aug. 9, 1931 - 30 light colored birds were feeding on the carcass of a walrus; 15 miles S. of Wainright. 2. Sept. 11-12, 1931 - between Cape Cheful, Unalaska Is., and St. George Island - Fulmars were always in light-light colored birds. 3. Sept. 16, 1931 - "Fulmars in sight all day - halfway between West Cape (St. Lawrence Is.) and Krembell (St. Lawrence Is.) - light colored the varied somewhat - spot on end of wing - no dark phase Fulmars." "The rookeries between Boxer Bay and West Cape were cormorants and Kittiwakes - according to Geist (