gradually gathered at slicks and lingered until all of the chum were consumed, 

 the longer I remained at one slick, the greater the number of birds usually 

 seen. 



Representative photographs of most species of pelagic birds and marine 

 mammals, plus five specimens (providing carroborative evidence of certain 

 species first reported in the northern Chesapeake Bight) are deposited at the 

 National Museum of Natural History (USNK), Washington, D.C. 



