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SPECTES ACCOUNTS 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (109) 
A' slight increase in density of this species was recorded over the 
November survey. Practically all birds were recorded on 8, 9, ana 
10 December in conjunction with mixed feeding flocks. Only two 
L.tht phase birds were noted, about the expected percentage in dark 
-chase southern hemisphere populations. 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shearwater (1) 
With the migration over, these species should not be expected again 
in the grid until the post-breeding migrations beginning about April. 
Audubon's Shear water (1+2 nocturnal) 
Irre gularly recorded in low numbers, a few stragglers are expected 
from the Phoenix Island population, 
Phoenix Island/Tahiti Petrel (3) 
Individuals of this bi-species complex have consistently been re¬ 
corded in low numbers during all surveys to date# Both species 
are known to occur in the grid, but always to,expected in low numbers# 
Black-winged Petrel (2) 
11 past surveys are indicative of this species movements, it should 
be absent or very scarce in the grid until May# 
IJhite-winged Petrel (3) 
Two races occur in the grid, but racial field identification is 
unreliable except under unusual circumstances. The species move¬ 
ments in the grid area are imperfectly known as yet because of 
the confusion of these birds during early grid surveys with the 
seasonally more abundant Black-winged Petrel. 
