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White-tailed Tropicbird 
Twenty three individuals were seen this month. The species was 
ramdomly distributed over the area. 
Blue-faced Booby 
Five of the six birds seen this month were at the southern end of 
the area. The other one was seen at 21 N. One bird was an immature while 
the others were sub-adults. A sub-adult that landed on the ship at 13 N 
was banded and released. 
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Brown Booby 
Two birds were seen near Oahu. One was in a feeding flock. 
Red-footed Booby 
A large (200) feeding flock of this species was seen just south of 
Oahu. Twenty one other birds were seen in the same general area. 
Great Frigatebird 
A new high of 62 was recorded in June, l4 more than May. Only 6 
were seen last June. 
Pomarine Jaeger 
One individual was seen in the northwest corner. 
Sooty Tern 
Due mainly to the fact that the ship passed through the area just north 
of Oahu during the night only 2557 birds were seen this month compared with 
5020 last month. Large numbers of this species were seen over 100 miles 
north of Oahu on 1 July in small feeding flocks. This month greater numbers 
were seen in the southern part of the area including immature birds, prob¬ 
ably from Palmyra or Christmas Islands. 
Noddy Tern 
Only 55 birds were seen this month, due mainly to the fact that the 
ship passed in darkness through the area where most of the 1516 were seen last 
