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23 March 1769
Fresh gales and squally with rain the first part, the remainder fresh gales and clowdy- PM saw some men of war Birds and Egg Birds and in the Morning saw more Egg Birds and Tropic Birds. The Man of War and Tropic Birds are pretty well known but the Egg Bird / as it is call'd in the Dolphins Journals / requires some description to know it by that name. it is a small slender Bird of the Gull kind
Natural Phenomena in South Seas Companion: great frigate bird (man of war bird) | red-tailed tropic bird | white tern
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