immature Red Foot was shot also. The ship circled backed and fiddled 
around for over an hour in the quickly falling darkness. An even though 
we came close to the floating birds several times, we were never aboe 
to pick them up. As the ship's straighten again about 2000 a bird looking 
like a Red foot apprached the ship and look like it might alight. A 
couple of the sailors tried to grbb it and it moved off. A few miunted 
later it was beck again this time landing in the water and quickly 
disappearing in the dark. Our position at this time wfs about 320 
miles south of Lisianski and 360 miles east of Johnson. 
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15 March 1962 
Two people maintained bird watch most of the day Black foots 
were fall co following at dawn, two of them, About 0830 I observed 
another Brown Bird like the one collected yesterday but it was too 
fsr away to be collected. We noted a shearwater at 845 one basek foot 
follow us until about 1050 this is the l»3t record of the Black foot 
on the Southern trip. It was much warmer otoday our position is 
about 700 miles south of midway latitude 17, temperature in the 80's 
all day. There have been few clouds and the sun has beenen down on 
us all dsy. The sea has been fairly good w# are running with the 
wind and the behind us so the ship ha® not been rolling too much. 
16 Mardh 1963 
Today 7 dule and barring the wind has moved to the east 
and the ship is rolling regularly about 20 degrees. Today has been 
mostly clear with scatter clouds and quite hot. Our quarters 
down below are very hot in the 90's althe time even with fans 
running continuely. We spent the dsy on the flying bridge looking 
