North Atlantic.
Voyage from Liverpool to Boston - In the Gulf Stream.
1911.
Aug. 6
(No 2)
[August 6, 1911]

Flying Fish

 waves usually at right angles to the course of the wind. More
than once I was almost certain that I saw them vibrate their "wings"
rapidly & intermittently & at other times that I made out the hazy
blur due, presumably, to such action.

Mother Carey's Chickens.
Oceanites oceanica.
Procellaria pelagica.

  Mother Carey's chickens were in sight very frequently and at times
almost constantly, between 3 & 7 P.M. wandering about over the ocean
sometimes coming within 75 or 100 yards of our steamer but never once
following her wake so far as we were able to observe. Once I saw 
four and several times three, flying in company but as a rule they
occurred singly or in pairs. Three which crossed our bow when
I was standing there about 2 P.M. looked exactly like Wilson's Petrels
and flew close to the water much after the manner of White-bellied
Swallows. All the others that I saw (certainly at least 50 & I
think nearer 75 in number) looked a third smaller and their
flight seemed much swifter and more erratic. Some after following
the undulations of the water rather closely for awhile would