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fresh enough to skin. It was referred to the race F. g. rodgersii by 

 Sundell. The other three specimens (USNM 498110, February 26; 

 USNM 498111, March 28; and USNM 498112, March 30) were 

 skeletonized. 



On Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Bratley collected two partially 

 decomposed fulmars that he found 100 feet apart on the north beach 

 Aug. 15, 1964. Both birds were preserved subsequently as skeletons 

 (USNM 498113, 498114). 



The earliest record from the Hawaiian area, however, is a hitherto 

 unreported beach-dried mummy (USNM 489327) found on the beach 

 of Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, and collected by Wetmore, 

 June 25, 1923. 



Fulmars have been reported previously from Oahu (King, 1959a) 

 and from Midway Atoll (Fisher, 1965), but none have been reported 

 previously from either Kure Atoll or French Frigate Shoals. 



Fulmarus g. rodgersii breeds from Siberia to the Pribilof and Aleutian 

 Islands (AOU, 1957). 



Murphy's Petrel Pterodroma ultima 



A female (USNM 492988) collected by Ludwig, Oct. 7, 1963, on 

 Green Island, Kure Atoll, and another female (USNM 497224) 

 collected by Harrington as it flew over Tern Island, French Frigate 

 Shoals, on Sept. 9, 1966, are being reported by Gould and King (in 

 press). There are no previous records of this petrel from any of the 

 islands of the main Hawaiian or Hawaiian Leeward groups. 



This little-known petrel breeds only on some of the islands of the 

 Austral and Tuamotu groups in the Central Pacific (Murphy, 1952). 



Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta 



A male (USNM 300679) collected on Green Island, Kure Atoll, 

 Apr. 30, 1923, by Wetmore is being reported by Gould and King (in 

 press). The present specimen constitutes the first specimen record 

 from any of the islands of the Hawaiian area. 



This species nests on islands in the South Pacific from the Juan 

 Fernandez Islands in the east to Lord Howe Island in the west and 

 recently has been seen frequently at sea in the Central Pacific (Gould 

 and King, ibid.). 



Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii 



Sibley and Amerson estimated that an adult population of 25 Bulwer's 

 petrels was present on Gardner Pinnacles June 16, 1963. Ten nests 

 were found and all contained eggs. 



