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two .skuas, two Cape pigeons, many blue petrels, both kinds of Wilson's petrels, the 

 giw- bodied petrel (see the IGth inst.) and black-hacked petrels were seen during the 

 day. A new bird was seen to-day by Mr Bruce about the size and shape of a Cape 

 pigeon, the head, back, neck, tail and wings being of a dark brown colour, whilst the 

 breast and abdomen were white ; also another bird of about half the size with a white 

 mark on its cheeks. White, piebald and black porpoises were also seen. 



April 19M, 4'2 57' S. 8 13' W. Very many albatroses. a few Burdwood Bank and 

 black-billed albatroses, three or four Dinnti'ilcn melanophrys, two or three nellies, two 

 skuas, a few Wilson's petrels, grey-bodied petrels and the light-brownish-grey petrels 

 and a few blue petrels were seen. 



April -Jo///. 41 30' S. 9"" 55' W. Very many soot}' albatroses, chiefly yellow-billed. 

 a few black-billed and some young albatroses, a nelly and a skua, a few Wilson's 

 petrels, very many light-brownish-grey petrels, black-backed petrels 2 and blue petrels 

 were seen, also a tern which Walker caught. The four-feet vertical net was lowered 

 and trailed along at a depth of about two to three fathoms ; one crustacean was caught. 

 Sea very phosphorescent. 



April '21 xt, (j<i>/li Ixlm,<l, 40 L'o' S. 9 56' AV. Too rough to land. Many birds 

 were flying about the ship all clay long. The following were spotted : both kinds of 

 sooty albatroses, particularly the yellow-billed, many wandering albatroses, Diomedea 

 meltiiioplrryt;, 1 many nellies and skuas, a great number of blue petrels, black-backed 

 petrels,-' grey-bodied petrels, 3 light-brownish-grey petrels, 4 both kinds of AVilson's 

 petrels, especially the white-bellied ones, 5 and terns like the South Orkney specie-,. 

 one, however, with a brownish back." Pirie and Karl caught a quantity of seaweed, on 

 which were many amphipods of one species, an isopod and a stalked-eyed crustacean 

 (schizopod) and several bryozoa. A large trap was lowered in the evening in about 

 70 fathoms, about a mile from shore. Sea very phosphorescent. 



April -2-2inf. <f<>iii//i I*ln,i<l. A landing was effected this morning on Gough Island. 

 .fust before leaving, a black petrel was seen. The following birds were secured : four 

 skuas, 7 several finches of two species, 8 four brown-backed terns," two dead penguins, 10 

 one South Orkney tern, 11 a pair of petrels like blue petrels 1 - (which Pirie heard croaking 

 in a deep hole), four water-fowls" and an albatros. 11 A fish, several limpets, a chiton 

 and two or three species of crustaceans were collected on the shore, and several milli- 

 pedes, spiders, slaters, flies and a water-beetle were got ashore, the latter in a fresh 

 water (stagnant) pool. A dead mouse " wa- found. Whilst we were away, the cooks 

 six sooty albatroses, one of which spewed up a cuttle-fish. The bo'sun caught a 



1 A doubtful record for Gough Island : no specimens were secured : it may have been Thalnssogeron 

 exiinus. * Oestrdata mollis. 3 The same as the following species (?) 



1 Priojiiius cinereus. s Cymodroma rjrallaria. 6 Majagueus aequmoctialis. 



7 Melaf/estris nii/nrctica. * Nesospiza goughensis sp. nov., and N. jessiae sp. nov. 9 Sterna rittat:t. 

 10 Eudyptes chrysocome. ' This record appears to be an error. ' Purtinus assimilis. 



13 Porphyriornis comeri. " Thalnssogeron sp. See Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's report on the birds. 

 15 Mas musculus evidently escaped from a ship on some previous occasion. 



