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TABLE II 
SPECIES COMPOSITION AND DENSITY OUTSIDE THE NORTHERN GRID 
Species 
Number 
No. Lin. 
Mi. No 
. Coll. 
Status over prior* 
October averages 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
257 
0.415 
0 
same 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shearwater 
66 
0.106 
0 
same 
Christmas Island Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
0 
greater 
Pale-footed Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
0 
same 
Newell’s Shearwater 
4 
0.006 
0 
same 
Dark-rumped Petrel** 
3 
0.005 
0 
• 
Pteroaroma externa (Total) 
154 
0.248 
0 
greater 
Juan Fernandez Petrel 
128**** 
0.206 
0 
i 
White-necked Petrel 
0.006 
0 
? 
Mottled Petrel 
ik 
0.023 
0 
greater 
Pteroaroma hypoleuca 
70 
0.113 
0 
fewer 
Bonin Island Petrel** 
2X-X-X-X- 
0.003 
0 
? 
♦ 
Black-winged Petrel 
0.105 
0 
? 
Bulwer T s Petrel 
4 
0.006 
0 
same 
Leach’s Storm Petrel*** 
9 
0.015 
0 
fewer 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
9 
. 0.015 
0 
. same 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
4 
0.006 
0 
fewer 
Blue-faced Booby 
2 
0.003 
0 
fewer 
Red-footed Booby 
5 
0.008 
0 
same 
Great Frigatebird 
4 
0.006 
0 • 
fewer 
Golden Plover 
12 
0.019 
0 
same 
Ruddy Turnstone 
2 
0.003 
.002/ 
0 
same 
Spotted Sandpiper 
1 
0.002 
1 
first record 
Sooty Tern 
209 
0.337 
0 
greater 
Common Noddy Tern 
7 
0.011 
0 
fewer 
Fairy Tern 
2 
0.003 
0 
greater 
Pomarine Jaeger 
6 
0.010 
0 
greater 
Unidentified birds 
580 
0.935 
0 
* See memo "Birds Between Oahu Island and Johnston Atoll (more than 100 
miles from land), October 1965 .” 
** Identification unreliable. 
*** Includes all white-rumped Storm Petrels. 
**** Included in above total. 
Note; Black-footed Albatross, Kermadec Petrel, and Japanese White-eye have all 
been recorded in previous years in this area. 
