TABLE 4. Abundance of species within the Southern Grid, September 1965. 
Species 
No. Birds 
Birds/ Linear Mile 
No. Collected 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
443 
0.81 
2 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shearwater 
28,580 
51.87 
2 
Newell's Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
Audubon's Shearwater 
1 
0.002 
Black-winged Petrel 
6 
0.01 
Gould's Petrel 
2 
0.004 
Bulwer's Petrel 
7 
0.01 
White-throated Storm Petrel 
2 
0.004 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
5 
0.01 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
4 
0.01 
Blue-faced Booby 
50 
0.09 
2 
Brown Booby 
14 
0.03 
Red-footed Booby 
5 
0.01 
Lesser Frigatebird 
3 
0.006 
Golden Plover 
29 
0.05 
1 
Ruddy Turnstone 
10 
0,02 
2 
Wandering Tattler 
1 
0.002 
Bristle-thighed Curlew 
6 
0.01 
LongGtailed Jaeger 
6 
0.01 
Pomarine Jaeger 
2 
0.004 
Sooty Tern 
6,606 
11.99 
6 
Gray-backed Tern 
1 
0.002 
Common Noddy Tern 
49 
0.09 
. 3 
Fairy Tern 
34 
0.06 
Unidentified Shearwater-Petrel 
32 
0.06 
Unidentified Frigatebirds 
64 
0.12 
Other (unidentified) 
6 
0.01 
TOTALS 
35,974 
65.29 
18 
TABLE 5. 
Species 
Banded and/or color-tagged birds observed or collected,September 1965. 
Date Band or Ta g Latitud e Longitude Origin 
17 737-28636 1-16 N 176-44 W Howland 
Island 
October 
1963 
Blue-faced Booby . 
