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2 — Aa «pic dayt Hundred* of bird* all day. Black-foots started 
with two bird* at 0555 building to seven at 1225 . Laysan’* seemed 
peculiarly curious about the ship. One followed foor at least l/ 2 hour 
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and all three followed for a few minutes. 
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saw a ? Bonin Island Petrel at 091^. Many shareblrds were seen today, 
eight, all looking the same a* previous onee-ligbt and small. They 
seem to pay no attention to the ship. One Bed -tailed Tropicbird, the 
first in several days was seen at 1225. A Bulwer's Petrel was seen at 
1515 and at 1525 two ? Sooty Terns seen by Termite. At 1610 an 
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all back storm 
, forked tail appeared to be present, was seen by 
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King, called Sooty Storm Petrel? 
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Booty Slb arwatera started at 0951 and continued all day In a fairly 
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steady stream; a omet imes as many as six or so would be visible at one 
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time. They were mostly individuals, some twos and threes and fours 
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out none of the tight packed flocks seen in November . One individual 
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confirmed the species identification; it was «lao accompanied by a 
silver lined bird. 155 and 50 probables filed past the ship in an 
unending stream. Prospects for more of the same for tomorrow look good. 
teiJLl—Sooty Shearwaters today in masses. 155 of them in twelve 
hours and fifty minutes, excluding about one hour or so of time when 
no one was counting. Adding those that weren't Been a total of 2000 
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for the area we traversed is probably quite conservative. Considering 
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cnat the 120 miles ve covered are equal to 2^0 square miles of observation 
