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couple of Bulver’s Petrels flew by. Later on In the morning a couple 
of frigate! irds and a white-tailed troplcbird flew by. And late in 
the morning a Fairy Tern flew by. We had a big lunch (really a dinner 
of chicken and vegetables) and continued the watch for sea birds. 
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Occasionally we would go to the lab to help organize stuff, or to pack 
our own personal box. Late in the mrrning we also had two Newell’s 
(Manx) Shearwaters 30 by. Late in the afternoon around 17 00, we had 
two odd shearwater -petrel type things go by which were first tentatively- 
identified as New Zealand Shearwaters , but later suspected io be 
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were small (around Bulwer’s size) fast flyers. 
with white on the head and upper wing. We ate dinner with some unknown 
officer. Metre watche after supper. Bob Long spent the whole afternoon 
and evening frightfully seasick on the flying bridge. We (Pete and i) 
had a talk with the "doc" of the ship about travel and guns, etc. 
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Then I showered, wrote this, and hit the sack at 2100. 
June 3 — I slept through Reveille, somehow I Just didn’t hear it. So 
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saw some odd black and white shearwaters go by fehick we (Doug and I) 
concluded were Newell's Shearwaters, a local race of the Manx. Before 
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I had gotten up there Fred and Doug had seen white then called White- 
necked Petrels . Some more of these flew by and after searching the 
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Finally we got the shot guns out to collect these. Larry got all 
