Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
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P-7 
chicks there on Laysan clear into September, but this could very well be somewhat 
an unusual case then considering the thousand of birds which nest there, you’re going 
to have a couple of extremely late ones. This trip we didn’t observe where all the 
young were found but the majority were on the slopes of Summit and Bull hill, the 
upper slopes and scattered all along the ridges with a few over on Northwest Cape, 
so even if I did specify how many young we found during July of 1964 on the tops of 
each of the hills, you must remember in July 1964 that the bulk of the chicks have 
left, however based on our March trips we could safely say that the bulk of the chicks 
are scattered all over the upper slopes of all the hills. Northwest Cape, however, 
has usually less than 25-30 chicks. It is not used anywhere near as much as the 
upper slopes of the hills on the main island. 
Bulwer’s Petrel looks pretty good. On the table page I have added our 1969 
although 
observations, J number C - a number of holes were searched for their presence 
with no success - could very well be we may have missed some, but I would think 
that we did enough looking that if any were around we should have seen at least one. 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater - on the first page - second sentence of the first 
paragraph - present from about March through October - I have lined out about and 
inserted at least. And the table - I have entered our 1969 data and the interesting 
thing was that on this trip almost alU the birds observed were in pairs. 
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Getting back to the annual cycle - the sentence beginning in the fourth line 
down - in the middle of the line - birds possibly court andc dig burrows for about 
2 months before first eggs are laid, I’ve inserted, dig burrows where possible. 
Christmas Shearwater - we have two March records and the reason for that is 
listed on the last line of the observations. On 22 March 1969 another was observed 
Since observations on other islands during this time indicate that they occur in 
pairs it is very likely that another one was present. 
Sooty Storm Petrel - I think you’d better take that status out as hypothetical 
and state one documented record. The mere fact that this bird didn’t happen to be 
collected at the time isn’t saying that it wasn’t there, so you say the bird was not 
collected a&Q the record cannot be verified; well, by whom? 
