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TABLE 3. Diurnal abundance of 
8-14 December 1966* 
Snecies No 
Speedes in the Southern 
. Birds Birds/Lin, Mi. 
Grid, 
No. Coll. 
Status 
over last 
Month 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
109 
0.16 
Sooty/Sl.-billed Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
- 
Audubon* s Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
+ 
Phoenix Tsland/Tahiti Petrel 
3 
0.004 
- 
Black-winged Petrel 
2 
0.003 
- 
White-winged Petrel 
3 
0.004 
- 
Pterodroma species 
1 
0.002 
- 
Bulwer’ s Petrel 
1 
0.002 
0 
shearwater-petrel 
2 
0.003 
- 
Wilson’s Storm Petrel 
2 
0.003 
+ 
Leach’s Storm Petrel 
2 
0.003 
1 
- 
white-rumped storm petrel 
47 
0.07 
+ 
Ped-tailed Tropicbird 
% 
14 
0.02 
3 
+ 
Blue-faced Booby 
229 
0.34 
1 
- 
Brown Booby 
13 
0.02 
0 
Ped-footed Booby 
14 
0.02 
- 
Great Frigatebird 
1 
0.002 
0 
Lesser Frigatebird 
46 
0.07 
4* 
frigatebird species 
148 
0.22 
- 
Ruddy Turnstone 
2 
0.003 
- 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
1 
0.002 
+ 
Sooty Tern 
3276 
4.93 
5 
+ 
• 
Gray-backed Tern 
3 
0.004 
+ 
Common Noddy 
14 
0.02 
+ 
Blue-gray Noddy 
2 
0.003 
1 
+ 
Fairy Tern 
10 
0.02 
+ 
Pomarine Jaeger 
2 
0.003 
•f 
jaeger srecies or skua 
1 
0.002 
+ 
TOTALS 
3950 
5.94 
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