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Section M D n Grid to Long Beach 29-30 July 
Departed Grid area at O 83 O hours 29 July. Eleven hours of observa¬ 
tion 0-100 miles east of the Grid on 29 July, and 1.1 hours between Santa 
Catalina and Long Beach on 30 July constitute this section (see Figure #2). 
Section n A jt Hawaiian Area: 
During 12.4 hours (100 miles) of diurnal observations on 10 and 11 
July, 620 birds of 10 species were observed. Sooty Terns, Wedge-tailed 
Shearwaters, and Common Noddies were the dominant species accounting for 
97 percent of the birds in this section. Several large feeding flocks 
were seen on the 11th, 100-200 miles from land. (See non-Grid Table #2 
for summary.) 
SPECIES ACCOUNTS 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater ( Puffinus pacificus ) # Obs. - 83 
$ Section total = 13.4 
Wedge-tails were abundant on 10 July when passing 10-30 miles north 
of Molokai, and were regular in the Sooty Tern flocks on 11 July. All 
birds observed were light-phase. 
Newell’s Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus newelli ) # Obs. = 2 
Two Newell’s were seen alone on 10 July. 
Black-winged Petrel $ Obs. = 2 
Small Pterodroma sp. # Obs. = 5 
Pterodroma externa # 0bs. = 1 
Pterodroma sp . # Obs. = 2 
The above sightings were all made on the second day out. One small 
Pterodroma was thought to be a White-winged Petrel, but probably most of 
the small birds were P. hypoleuca . No Bonin-type birds were observed. 
The P. externa was probably a Juan Fernandez. 
Dark-rumped Petrel ( Pterodroma phaeopygia ) # Obs. = 1 
A bird tentatively assigned to this species was seen north of 
Molokai on 10 July. 
Bulwer (?) Petrel ( Bulweria bulweriae ) # Obs. = 1 
A single large all-dark petrel seen in a Sooty Tern flock on 11 June 
was probably this species. It was not observed well enough to rule out 
the possibility of Sooty Storm Petrel. 
