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This morning several gulls (L. glaucescens) were seen from time to time - Gonys - Diomedea brochyura still follows us but less numerous than before we came so near shore. In the afternoon a single Cormorant (G. dilophus?) came circling about and a pair of Murres were seen in the water a short distance away.
Every hour or so all day a large albatross a fourth larger than the [[strikethrough]] shoe [[/strikethrough]] Gony and of a uniform darker brown than the latter except for a white ring at base of bill and the pale waxy yellowish of the bill which showed conspicuously at a distance. This is the young of the same large species that is seen about the Aleutian Is - 
Several Larus argentatus seen in P.M.
Several vessels were seen during the day & especially in the PM until about 4.30 PM when a dense fog shut down. 
A large black species of petrel which was seen a number of times during the trip down can be no other but Cymochorea melania
This is probably Fulmarus giganteus
and a few Fork-tailed Petrels were seen near (within a few hundred miles)
The Aleutian Is-
One or two other species were seen at too great a distance to get an idea of their identity
[[strikethrough]] just before the fog shut [[/strikethrough]]