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Wedge-tailed Shearwater ( Puyj.nus pacificus ) 
Current Status: Infrequent visitor. 
Prior Records : L. P. Schultz collected a specimen on May 20, 1939 which 
constitutes the only previous record, 
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Population*: <tOn July l6, 1964 a pair of birds, 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 17 the hill was revisited and 
a dark phase bird was banded at the mouth of the partially completed burrow. 
On February l6, 1965 one bird was seen offshore just at dusk. Ldrge numbers 
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of Wedgetails breed on Phoenix Island, 40 miles to the southwest. 
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Other Specimens: USEM 358l42/‘ May 20, 1939* 
