3P5CIBS ACCOUNTS 
Iaysan Albatross 
This species was mofet abundant near the breeding grounds on 
Laysan and Lisianski. As usual, individuals which began following 
the ship usually continued so for hours or even the entire day. 
There is a good possibility that certain individuals were recorded 
on consecutive day3. Policy for determining numbers of both this 
and the following species is that used by King and others in that 
an hourly count of ship followers is made and the highest hourly 
count is used for the dally total. 
Black-footed_iahstro_s_s 
This species was over three times as abundant as laysan 
Albatrosses. This is in direct opposition to the ratio of birds 
on the two breeding islands visited, where laysans outnumbered 
Black-foots at a ratio of 9-1* This may only indicate that Black¬ 
footed Albatrosses are more prone to follow ships and may change 
flight course to do so thus producing a false density picture. 
T 'edge-talled Shearwater 
Medium to high daily totals were recorded throughout the cruise; 
the only exceptional peak day was 16 June between Laysan and Lisianski 
Only three Dark Phase and a few variable intermediate phase birds 
were noted of the 2734 total, thus demonstrating that a purely 
northern population is present in the area. 
