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couple of penguins, too far off to distinguish tin- specie-. White-bellied Wilson'- 

 petrels, the diving petrel, grey-bodied petrels, black-hacked petrels, 1 tern- ami one 

 Cape pigeon eninpri.se the list of birds seen. Mr llrnce shot t\vo yellow-billed Booties. 



Sea very phosphorescent. 



A t >,-il '.)///, 51' 07' S. '.) 31' W. Blue- and yelln\v-hille<l al bat roses and al-o 

 /tii, ,11, ili'u melanophrys ahout the ship continnalK : iirev-lmdied petrels, new peiid-. 



two kinds of Wilson's petrels, one blue petrel, one ('ape pig i. terns, two speeies of 



penguins, one a jackass (Spheniscus magellctnicus) and the other probably Eudyptes 

 <// /'i/xix'tintc, and the diving petrel (Pelecanoides). Mr Bruce saw a new alhatros of the 

 si/.e and shape of I)i<>in<'<l<' i>i<'/nii<>j>/ii-i/x and of the same colour except the hack of 

 its neck which was dark with a dark ring complete, or almost complete, round ahout it, 

 and a black beak. Mr Bruce shot a blue- and also a yellow-billed alhatros. Tin- 

 Monagasque traw] was lowered in 2103 fathoms with 3100 fathoms of wire-rope. On 

 hauling it up some wire got twisted round the trawl and it came to the surface bottom 

 u}). Dynomometer registered a strain of 3^- to 4 tons. Some diatom ooze was got in 

 the trawl and one star-fish, two ophiuroids, a sponge, a crustacean and an unrecognis- 

 able jelly-looking substance. Probably the bottom was rocky. Sea phosphorescent. 



April Wt/i, 49 25' S. 9 21' W. Sooty alhatmses, both blue- and yellow-billed, 

 large albatroses, grey-bodied petrels, and both kinds of Wilson's petrels were about the 

 ship all day long also one blue petrel and one Cape pigeon. A new petrel, about the 

 size and shape of the grey-bodied petrel, white below except the throat which, with tin- 

 whole of the dorsal surface of the bird, was light greyish-brown.' 2 A new albatros was 

 seen to-day, similar in size and shape to the one described yesterday and also similar 

 in colouration, except that the whole of the head and throat were of the same greyish- 

 brown colouration as the dorsal surface. The whole of the under surface of the win-- 

 was white except round the edges which were of the same greyish-brown : the top 

 of the beak was yellow. 



Sea phosphorescent to-night. 



Ajiri! \ltlt, 48 53' S. 9 25' W. Several nellie-, yellow- and blue-billed soot v 

 albatroses, large albatroses, new albatros seen ye-terday, two him- petrels, two Cape 

 pigeons, jackass and macaroni penguins, grey-bodied petrels, new petrels and both 

 kinds of Wilson's petrels. The emperors we have on board are getting very thin and 

 appear to be very dejected. 



Sea phosphorescent at night. 



Ajn-il \-llli. 4s no' S. '.) 50' W. Blue- and yellow-billed albatrose.-, the new 

 albatros (see description of the loth inst. ; we now call it the Burdwood Bank alhatros), 

 DiiiiiH'ili'ti ///rA///. y,//,y/.v. a blue pet I'd, numerous grey-bodied petrels, black-backed 

 petrel- ami both kind- of Wilson's petrel* were about the -hip. Mr Bruce caught a 

 vellow-hilled sootv albatros hv means of a fishing line. 



The deep-sea trawl was let down to the bottom (rocky) at 1332 fathoms: 2300 of 



1 Oestrelata mollis. 2 Priorinus cinereus. 



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