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hardly any lighter than dorsal surfaces. Wedgetail flight is dead give- 
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away however. One Newell’s today, close enough to be very clearly 
seen, even tie white tabs that climb up the sides behind the wings ala 
violet-green Swallow. At 1025 and at 1050 two Bulwer’s Petrels were 
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seen at close range. They didn't quickly disappear from sight like a 
Storm Petrel. The wedge-tail, light dorsal wing bars, flight 
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pattern, size, color, everything bespoke Bulwers. At 11139 four whales 
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were seen fairly closely to the ship. They all spouted but identification 
is still beyond my grasp. T o flocks of Sooty Terns passed by at 1810 
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and l8l6 with only a couple of individuals of the first flock observed 
feeding. 
Two Wedgetalls were observed feeding by Sundell. They were light 
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March 21 — Had a nice Newell’s south at day break. Fairly well seen. 
All liar court ' b SP’s seen today were Type B - Petrel- like as opposed to 
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Type A bat-like. All Wed get ails (19) were light phase. Two Frigatebirda 
(l 9 advilt) seen in each case unaccompanied . One of the Harcourts B’s 
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was seen to alight on the water with extended vinge . T e second Frigate 
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was (fishing, dropping from 50 feet car higher to inches of the water, then 
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pulling up, evidently hitting the water only with its bill. Most of the 
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ShSjsrvater sp. birds today were almost certainly Sooty Shears. The 
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fli^it pattern ought to be a giveaway, but there is always chance of error 
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The V/edgetail, when it arcs high doesn’t get as vertical, and c*Ping t 
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onto the descent it ccraee horizontal for a few tenths tf a second before 
