3 
Highlights 
l) Overall linear density -- .208 -- easily the lowest yet recorded 
for one survey. 
2) Virtual disappearance of fall migrants, i.e., Arctic Tern, Sooty 
Shearwater, Leach’s Storm Petrel. 
3) Early hints of the "winter populations” arriving, i.e., Fulmar, 
Herring Gull, Red-tailed Tropicbird. 
4) Continued occurrence of unusual land and shorebird vagrants, in- 
including eight new Grid species: Arctic Loon, Mallard, Yellowlegs 
sp., Water Pipit, Barn Swallow, Starling, White-crowned Sparrow^ 
Audubon’s Shearwater. 
A special appendix summarizing the birds recorded for E.G.S. ## 1-15 
by the higher taxonomic categories, is included here as Tables 3 and k. 
General 
Again the overall pattern of distribution within the Grid finds the 
highest density in the northeast and the lowest density in the opposite 
corner: 
t f 
.102 ’ 
t 
.615 ' .330 
t 
.130 ' 
r 
.101 ’ .344 
t 
.047 ’ .107 ’ .131 
Birds per linear mile 
The sectional 
pattern: 
distribution of 
number of species shows 
1 » 
a similar 
6 
■ 7 ' 7 
! T 
5 
’ 4 ’13 
1 ,i. 
1 
’ 2 ’ 3 
Number of species 6bserved in each section. 
Phalaropes and Storm Petrels together account for about 55 percent of 
the total birds observed. Another 13 percent is added by Jaegers. The 
remaining one-third presents rather a menagerie of odds and ends, loosely 
categorized as follows: 
