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POBSP personnel have found Bulwer's petrels on Southeast Island, 

 Pearl and Hermes Reef, on three separate occasions. Fifteen adults 

 and three nests with eggs were found June 18-22, 1963: five adults were 

 seen Aug. 16-19, 1964; and one large young was found Sept. 25-27, 

 1966. 



This species previously has been reported breeding on Nihoa, 

 Necker, Laysan, Midway, and French Frigate Shoals in the Hawaiian 

 Leewards (Bailey, 1956; Richardson, 1957), but it has not been 

 reported previously from either Gardner Pinnacles or Pearl and 

 Hermes Reef. 



Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 



Bratley found a sooty shearwater carcass (USNM 496201) washed up 

 on the beach May 18, 1965, on Green Island, Kure Atoll. Six more 

 specimens were taken at the same locality by Woodward in the 

 spring of 1966 (USNM 496557, Apr. 23, 1966; USNM 498253, 498254, 

 May 4, 1966; USNM 496558, May 19, 1966; USNM 496559, 496560, 

 May 28, 1966). Five of these specimens were dead birds that washed 

 up on the beach. One specimen (USNM 496558) was captured alive 

 as it swam in the lagoon. 



This species breeds in Tasmania, on the islands in the New Zealand 

 area, and on islands near Cape Horn (AOU, 1957). Sooty shearwaters 

 are regular migrants through the Central Pacific and have been re- 

 ported previously from Oahu, in the main Hawaiian Islands (Wood- 

 side and Walker, 1964), and from Midway Atoll (Kenyon and Rice, 

 1957; Fisher, 1965), and Laysan Island (Bailey, 1956) in the Hawaiian 

 Leeward Islands. They have not been recorded previously from Kure 

 Atoll. 



Christmas Shearwater Puffinus nativitatus 



The POBSP collected specimens of Christmas shearwaters from one 

 island of the Leeward Islands from which they had not been recorded 

 before. These specimens (USNM 492965, Mar. 7, 1963; USNM 

 492966, Feb. 26, 1963) were collected on Southeast Island, Pearl 

 and Hermes Reef. 



Since there are no previous records for this island and since Robbins 

 (1966) gave no details of his observations of breeding birds on Green 

 Island, Kure Atoll, we include here a short summary of POBSP breed- 

 ing data from these islands for the period 1964-1966 as follows: 



Kure Atoll, Green Island: Christmas shearwaters are present on 

 Kure Atoll from March to October, reaching their peak numbers 

 (about 100 adults) during the peak of the nesting season, which occurs 

 from May through August. Nests with eggs have been found in the 



