PET .EL PELLETS 
V*e 11, the ST A. BVilTE crew has successfully outlived another 
18 day cruise into the all to familiar unknown# Our new support 
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ship, a mine sweeper* si a sight to behold, not to board. In the 
future we will all hive .much Metre respedt for that intrepid crew 
that faces two months aboard an ATF• A >urple feather shaft 
should be a arded to Sibley and sufferers. .'e proddly proclaim, 
however, that there was not a single case of sea-sickness to be 
found amongst our group. Gro t stuff that Dramamine. 
At-sea bird life within the grid area re ched an ail tiice 
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low in ‘ebruary. A total of <54 birds was recorded within this 
area giving an estimated 2,300 ;irds within the 50,000 squsre 
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miles of the grid* fourty-seven per-cent of these were boobies, 
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mostly Red-foots* while 31 % were of the Shearwater-Fetrel-Albatross 
roup. Tropiebirds and Storm Petrels ran 9 % e ;ch. sesne of the 
nore interesting records were as follows* 
1. Laysan Albatross* first occurrence in the grid area. 
2. Jirck-footed Albatross* first occurraace in the id 
a rea. 
One ilrd collected within sight of Johnston Tslond. 
3, Sooty Storm etrel* first tinie have seen this species 
anywhere in our area. It was almost 300 miles SW of Johnston. 
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4. Trinadade Pet* ell a first for STARS:-; HE. 
3. Sooty Terns* none seen in the grid area although Sinion 
reports over 50,000 on nearby Sand Island, ’he e do they go? 
6. slue-faced Sooby: collected an adult £erode chet had been 
