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latitude. "Sooty Albatroses" were frequently logged during the voyages of the Scotia 

 between the Falklands and the South Orkneys, and are believed to have been P. corni-. 

 coides, but no specimens were captured. 



Having made some incursions into the literature of Antarctic ornithology in the 

 preparation of these papers, perhaps it may be well to allude to these researches so far 

 as they concern P. cornicoides. 



Captain Hutton told me, in 1905, that this species is the common form in New 

 Zealand, and that it breeds at the Auckland and Antipodes Islands at the end of 

 October ; and Lonnberg in his Contributions to the Fauna of South Geori/ia, i. p. 71 

 (1906), mentions it as breeding on cliffs at that island. 



Chun (i.e., p. 167) informs us that during the voyage of the Valdivia, " Diomedea 

 fiihijiiioxn, die aschgrauen Albatrosse mit schwarzlichen Kopfe," was met with about 

 midway between the Cape of Good Hope and Bouvet Island on November '20th, 1898, 

 and (p. 220) that the Smoke-grey (" rauchgraue ") Albatros was seen almost daily from 

 Bouvet Island onwards. There is no mistake as to the bird meant, for reference is 

 made to an excellent figure of P. cornicoides. 



Bernacchi (To the South Polar Regions, pp. 316, 317) says that during the month 

 of January 1900 an albatros, which he describes as "generally sooty, paler on the 

 shoulders and under surface," was occasionally seen in the pack-ice. 



Vanhoffen ((.<:) has a number of references to Ph<cbetria during the voyage of the 

 (r'auss, as seen between Kerguelen and the Antarctic Circle, but he evidently did not 

 realise or recognise that there were two species of the genus. 



Anderson (op. cit.) makes no allusion to Ph edict ria under " Sturmviigel " in his 

 records of the " Hohere Tierleben " of the Swedish Expedition ; but Lonnberg (t.c., p. 6), 

 in his account of the birds seen during the relief expedition, mentions that several 

 examples of P. cornicoides were seen between Cape Horn and South Georgia, and that 

 it was last seen in 61 42' S. and 57 35' W. 



No Sooty Albatros was obtained by the Southern Cross Expedition, though, as I 

 have said, Bernacchi saw this bird ; nor does Dr Raeovitza (/.<'.) mention either species 

 in his account of the animal life observed during the voyage of the Belgica. 



Note. For further discussion of these species in the light of more recent knowledge, 

 see Section VIII. of this volume, "'Scotia Rise' Region." 



Diomedea i-snlmi* I, inn. 



Dionieilca esuluns Cat. J!., xxv. p. 441. 



Single examples of this species were seen on four occasions, namely : March 20th, 

 190:5, when the Scotin was in 6T S. and 43 20' \V. ; February 24th, 1904, in 63 S. 

 38 W., and on March 27th and 30th, in (J7 C S. 11' W. and 61 S. 13 \V. respectively. 



" Molliemauks " were logged on February 5th and 6th, 1903, when the ship was 

 proceeding eastwards from the South Orkneys and was a good way oil' the edge of the 

 pack-ice. This was from 60 to 61' S., and about 43" W. (Vol. IV. 1'urt I. pp. 8 and 9.) 



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