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Wirtz, William 0. 
19o4”‘ 
June l8 --0n course for Niihau'all day; into wind and sea 
still but weather calmed some. 
Saw one large feeding flock and several smaller 
ones today. Some composition as yesterday. Observed 
large shoals of small flying fish leaping out of the 
water in large feeding flock. Again predatory fish 
were skipjack. Saw Newell's shearwater in one flock, 
and several individuals. One Karcourt's Storm Petrel 
seen . Bulwer's seen regularly all day, and I shot one 
this afternoon. I also shot two'wedjgetails out of a 
feeding flock but we could only find one. Bob got 
another tropicbird today, ard we got shots at more 
Bulwer's and Newell's but couldn't connect. 
About 55 hours out of Honolulu at l800 today. 
June 19 --Passed Kaula and Niihau this morning and 
later were in view of Kaui for several hours; it was 
about 20 miles away. 
Only one feeding flock seen today; about 125 birds 
seen this AM. Flock was mostly noddies, some sooties 
and gray-backs, few blue-gray noddies, wedgetails and 
Newell's, one each of Frigate, brown booby and red-foot. 
I collected two blue-grays out of the flock. We noted 
no fish breaking the surface under theflock, but they 
were dropping into the water to pick up something. 
Sightings down from yesterday. Gray-backs up and 
blue-grays new species. Also Newell's and Bulwer's 
regular this evening heading north or northeast. Ken 
had Newell's around the ship last night on the 21-24 watch. 
Saw all three species of boobies and both tropicbirds 
today also. 
No watch after dark tonight as spotlights not 
permitted in shipping lane off Oahu. 
