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moved into the water when we appraocahed, but the 9 stayed by the put, 
and began to snort at us. When X picked up the body and moved it away 
from her she began to fol .low me,' snorting and belching, and looking 
around. Nearly was some old black plastic and I wrapped the pup in it. 
Ak> we left she moved over to the rest of the plastic and began sniffing 
at it, still snorting and bellowing. The cf came back out of the water 
and. moved up to her and began nuzzling her. 
The $ was also interesting as she had a deformed head. The right side 
of the rostrum was pushed in an inch or two, and the nose and shin 
of the face consequently were twisted off to that side. The mouth 
appeorecL to open normally and both eyes seemed all right. I do not know 
if her breaching was affected, hut the rostual area was considerably distorted. 
It was a very old injury', perhaps even occurring as a fetus or pup. 
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Late this afternoon we collected 10 black-footed albatross after 
getting blood samples from thevy , This evening we prepared the albatross 
skins, getting them all skinned and autopsied, but the skins not fleshed, 
anc. ve got both a skin, and a skeleton, except for the terminal jhallange 
on each digit. The viscera were too rotten to preserve. 
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21 Feb. 1963 
This morning I saw about getting some supplies for us to tak°to 
Pearl and Hermes and the rest of the group finished the albatross. This 
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afternoon we did miscellaneous independent chores. 
22 Feb. 1965 
¥e spent most of today over on Eastern Island collecting red-footed 
boobies and looking for the tropicbirds. Eastern; like Sand, is covered 
with Navy installations, but much of those on the former are now in 
ruins. There are abandoned runways and many disintegrating quonset 
