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Wedge-tailed Shearwater ( Fuffinus pacificus ) 
Current Status: tom visitor. 
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FTior Records: L. P. collected a specimen on May 20, 1959 asafcBs 
the only previous record. 
Population: On July 16, 19& a pair of liras, one of them light phase, was 
heard calling on the west side of the island and was observed digging a 
burrow on top of the "guano hill." On July Yf the hill was revisited and 
a dark phase bird was banded at the mouth of the partially completed burrow. 
On February 1 6 , 1965 one bird was seen offshore just at dusk. L*r}< l,i r; • 
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Other Specimens: USDM 3581^2, May 20, 1939- 
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