collected one with pink feet and wedged shaped tell, thus the large 
feae of the wedge tailed shearwater may he very dark and difficult 
to separate from the Christmas Island Shearwater at sea how ever, the 
dormer does have dark wing tips ( the primaries ) which asr noticable 
in the stm while the latter should he uniformly dark, we also saw 
flocks of sooty terns and collected one hlrd hut, noted no orange tags. 
Two more immature Red tailed Trope birds were also collected.this 
afternoon Mike shot a Ruddy” Turnstone the second we have seen this 
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trip. Date this afternoon we apparently ran out feeding ? , end 
we have senn only a few birds since 1600. 
Day 10 
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Quite cloudy thle A.M. with few showers hut hot and clear in 
here. On the fifth leg since 0700 this morning. The wind 5s from the 
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east. 
We collected a Bulwer's Petrel this P.M. and about 0545 this 
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morning a light faced wedge tail I was folowing with the spot light 
flew into the ship I caught it unharmed for a fine specimen I took 
several pictures of it alive. 
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We have seen several large (50 plus or minus) flocks of sooty 
terns feeding during the day but, always at great distances. Saw our 
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forth frigatebird today very high up. 
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We got a good blood sample from the wedged tail and Pete is doing 
a fine job prepareing the skins . He has gotten his eyes somewhat sun burned 
and we have keep him inside the last couple of days, they seem to be getting 
better. The small gun is still miss firing end shall have to return it. 
The clip on the goose gun jams frequently, Pat will buy Pump Gun in 
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