Husted, Dayle 
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were seen today. Again today the birds are flying more like they 
usually do. 
September 8 - -The sea was moderate and the skys clear to partly cloudy. 
Birds were again scarce today. I think part of it must be due to past 
breeding season. At 1700 today a skua ? was seen by Roger and Termite. 
Clapp said it was too big for a jaeger and it definitely wasn*t a tern 
or gull. Termite said he could see the white underwing. Two more 
Sooty Shearwater were seen by Clapp. I cleared up the blunderbus again 
and put it in one of the plastic cases. The gun is getting in poor 
shape . 
September 9 - -Today was very slow. The sky was partly cloudy to cloudy 
with rain squalls. The sea was moderate. Two small flocks were seen. 
One Kermadec Petrel was seen close by the ship today. 
September 10 - -The weater was partly cloudy to dloudy and overcast with 
squalls this evening. The sea was moderate. As a whole, it was rather 
stoppy out. Today was our slowest day so far. Eleven birds were seen, 
all petrels and shearwaters. No flocks were seen. 
September 11 - -The sky was partly cloudy all day. The sea was moderate, 
calming in the evening. Today was somewhat better so far as bird watching. 
Three flocks were observed. Roger tried to outsee one of the Hawaiians 
on board and found it was easier said than done. At 1^-10 a shearwater- 
petrel was observed. It was brown above, brown underwings with white 
towards the tips of the wings. It was about the size of a Dark-rumped 
Petre, but it flew more like a wedgetail. All of the flocks observed 
were feeding. 
