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- this morning even by breakfast time birds began appearing in numbers 
ana m interesting species. Species noted, Wetmore'concurring in case of 
uvo wnich i could not have sworn to myself: Black-footed gooney (Henshaw, 
i notice, uses the "e" in "gooney") — 30 to kO; Red-tailed Tropicbird, 
j o°^ - i - eac 0 oUb- 2; Blue-faced Booby - several; Wedge-tailed 
shearwater - common; Love bird - few; Recker Id. Tern - few; Gray-backed 
fern - wo; Man-o-war bird - common. The latter all ?? or young males of 
laso year hum above our masthead and occasionally seized our commission 
pennant inquisitively in their beaks. 
12 o0 Pas sea a motor sampan under sail head a 
mg east. 
3:10 Winoa out of sight, and with it went our birds, save only for our 
old faithful gooneys. 
A glorious calm day — rolled in at 8:00 — on deck again, joined by 
one or two more of the men who could not stand the bed bugs that appear 
to thrive below decks. 
b-o-23 Clear k.E® Trade Wind - sea moderate - rough 
Pacific Ocean en route to Laysan Id. 
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Mendien Position: Lat. 23°57'Hj Long. l66°25'W ' 
Slepi through but Log shows we sighted "Recker Id.•on our port bow 
a_t A.M. 1:55 Recker abeam - distance about 7 miles." 
8:50 A.M. Sighted French Frigate Shoals on our port bow and again 
our proximity uO an island was shown by an increase in birds bht in nothing 
li^e such a variety of sps. as yesterday — merely an increase in such 
sianc cys as Black-footed Albatross, Man o'War Bird and Wedge-tailed 
Saearwater. However I did see my first Laysan Albatross and also what I 
’Cu i cr a 
a Christmas Island Shearwater 
u this point. 
9:00 Stopped for repairs to valve ste:m of 
main circulating pump. 
