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March l8~Bsd -ta i led Tropicbirda noted in moaning, three at once, doing 
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tom pinwheel display behavior. All but the first T.B. (0826) had 
short tail feathers, some none too red. One had eyllov bill and short, 
almost white retrices but the size and all white auxil Ars gave it away. 
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Sundell saw New Zealand Shearwater at 1129, very close to ship. He 
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noted -lack cap, light grey neck and back, very strongly marked dark 
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bars on wings (upper surface) and back forming inverted W pattern, 
ilarcourt ' a Storm Petrel also came very close. Possibility of collecting 
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both. A smallish Shearwater with pointed wingB was indistinctly seen 
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during abandon ship drill; A good feeding flock was spotted by watch 
at 13*0 with Sooty Terns above and Shearwaters and Petrels below. Our 
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Watch also noted that the flock contained 
Noddy Terns and Tropicbirds. Neither of these were seen by us. The 
s especially questionable. At 1500 a large, dark gull-like 
bird was seen by Sundell, but not clearly. He called it a Jaeger sp. 
Very far from land for Jaegers to be seen. At 1555 13 Sooty Terns, 
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at least two of which vre iramatures, passed over and around ship. The 
iramatures were heard to call.; One was less than 50 feet from the ship. 
If it is assumed that the immature plumage lasts only six months the birds 
were most likely from the Lire Islands since there are no birds breed irg 
in fall cm Leewards, offshores or Johnston. At 1711 a shearwater was 
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seen by King at a mile 9 a distance silhouetted against the horizon* It 
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wafl fl y in S iG Ions, h igh scaling arcs reminiscent of Sooty Shearwaters per I taps . 
2f&3§l .12— Two Bonin Island Petrels seen before 7:30 a.ra., the second 
imperfectly. The first flapped quite a bit and didn't scale much but the 
