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There were "black-footed albat dosb following the ship today as soon 
as it was light enough for me to see. We saw anly five Laysan albatross 
today, and none were seen after 1000 this morning. We started to count 
black-foote around the ship every 15 minutes today, keeping a record from 
1515 until 1900. The black-foots followed us all the way batk to Pearl 
Harbor; the last count was made at dark just about a half hour before 
we docked. Many sooty terns were seen, usually flying a distance 
from the ship. It is fairly easy to separate these from the gray-backs, 
of which we only recorded a few, as the color of the back is quite 
different if you can see them with the sun shining on their backs. We 
recorded on red-tailed and one white tailed tropicbird today. Both 
passed the ship quite high. About a ruddy turnstone approached the 
ship from the south, circled the ship once, and headed north. We saw 
one frigate bird about 10 this miming, and I observed two boobies, by 
their sillouette and diving action, with a flock of terns several 
hundred yards away from the ship. 
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mile off the panrt side. Their spouts were visible for about a half 
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hour, but no identification was possible. I also observed one or wore 
porpoises about a mile off the port side shortly before 1P.M.. One 
animal broke completely out of the water while I watched with glasses 
and I had the general body form of a bottlenose dolphin but appeared 
more brown than the ones I've seen at Marineland. The identification can 
only be considered os tentative. 
I find that bird identificatiton at sea is going to have to be done 
from fleeting glimpses of birds passing the ship., frequently at some 
distance. The albatross are not difficult, due to the striking color 
