Wirtz, ¥. 
19^5 
Feb. 
j.'Jr 
-42- 
An adult cf was observed on the beach near the soutwest corner of 
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the island about 1452, but we were unable to tag it. One yearling 
female ( 1ID0) in water off this shore. Two adults seen on leach as we 
moved up the west side about 1445. 
The beach along the west side is fairly steep, hard sand beach. 
The landing today, with about a 15 knov wind blowing, lookd pretty 
safe. There are a few small coral heads, but there is a large light 
green area of water stretching on out Into the deeper sea. There are 
about a dozen large oil drums^sate ^ some wooden platforms on the beach 
near the landing. f** V 
There are numerous masked boobies nesting on the ground »nr wg 
the albatross along this side of the island. We noted two nests 
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with chicks in them. 
Three large adult 3eals noted at the small boat landing about 
1-450. We were unable to tag any of them. We then noted two adults at the 
edge nf the Scaevola as we moved north around the cave at the small 
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boat landing. There were 2 adults following us along in the water about 
15 or 20 yards from the beach. These had probably already been counted. 
Two adult cf* s, one on beach, other about 5 yard up in frcaevola were 
observed about 1505. 
Humber 59 vas observed sleeping in Scaevola bushes about 15 
yards from the beach about 1525. It had moved about half way around the 
island in about 5 l/2 hours. 
One young? and four adults observed on the beach it the northwest 
corner 1555. Northwest to north side of the island is 20 to 50 yards 
of sand beach with many small chunks of coral. There are albatross 
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nesting along the edge of the Scaevola and out onto the beach. There 
appears to be a predominance of black-foots. I observed 4 adults 
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