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Fiji Islands 
Area covered 
7, 8, 12, 13 February 
Nanuku Passage east of Taveuni to Suva, Viti Levu, 
and back. (See Figure No. ) 
$ Miles of Obs.: 326 
Species 
ot 
7° - 
White-capped Noddy 
49-3 
513 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
15.8 
164 
Red-footed Booby 
15-1 
157 
White Tern 
5.0 
52 
Noddy sp. 
3.6 
37 
Frigatebird 
3.5 
36 
Common Noddy 
3.1 
32 
Brown-winged Tern 
1.5 
16 
Crested Tern 
0.9 
9 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
0.7 
7 
Sooty Tern 
0.4 
b 
Brown Booby 
0.2 
2 
Audubon Shearwater 
0.1 
1 
Pteroaroma sp. 
0.1 
1 
Storm Petrel 
0.1 
1 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
0.1 
1 
Miscellaneous 
0.8 
8 
Total 
10036 . 
1041 
V 
Lin. Dens. : 3*2 
Species occurring in the Fiji section but not recorded in both other 
sections: ^ t 
White-tailed Tropicbird (Also seen in Lines) 
Brown-winged Tern 
Crested Tern 
Species with highest linear density occurring in the Fiji section: 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
White-capped Noddy 
White-tailed Tropicbird 
Species not recorded in Fiji section: 
Sooty/Slender-billed Shearwater 
Christmas Shearwater 
Bulwer Petrel 
Blue-faced Booby 
Blue-gray Noddy 
For some four days observations and collections were made in the Fiji 
Island complex. The fauna in general is quite discontinuous from the 
nominal program areas to the east and north. 
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