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Very numerous about the ships when south of 60° S. long., and near the Antarctic 

 ice. Often seen sitting on the icebergs.] 



7. Adamastor cinereus, Gm. 



Procellaria cinerea, Gm., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 563. 



Adamastor cinereus, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil., 1864, p. 119; S.alv., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, 

 p. 737. 



[No. 565. Female.j ^^ November 5 m5 



No. 566. Male, j 



Eyes hazel ; feet flesh colour. The stomach of one was full of the beaks of Cuttle- 

 fish ; stuff from the ship in the other, and small Crustacea. 



These Petrels are also called Mutton-birds by sailors and sealers, and are confounded 

 with (Estrelata lessoni.~\ 



8. Majaqueus (equinoctial is, Linn. 



Procellaria cequinoctialis, Linn., Syst. Nat, vol. i. p. 213.' 



Majaqueus cequinoctialis, Coues and Kidder, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2, p. 25 ; Sharpe, Zool. 

 Kerg., Birds, p. 19; Salv., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 737. 



\a-d. Males.) 



e. Female. / Karguetan. 



This bird and Ossifraga gigantea are both called by the sailors and sealers ' Cape- 

 hero.' The present species is also called the ' Black Night-hawk.' It makes its nest 

 under large round dome-like masses of Azorella. 



We dug these birds out of their nests at almost every place where we landed in 

 Kerguelen. There was always one egg only.] 



9. Ossifraga gigantea, Gm. 



Procellaria gigantea, Gin., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 563. 



Ossifraga gigantea, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil., 1866, p. 32; Salv., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 737. 



[No. 567. Female. South Pacific, November 7, 1875. 



Bill yellowish green ; feet black. 



a. Betsy Cove, Kerguelen. 



This bird is called ' Nelly ' and ' Stinker ' by the whalers at Kerguelen. It feeds 

 largely on carrion. When the sea-elephants were being skinned at Betsy Cove, numbers 

 of them collected to feed on the blubber. 



We saw this Petrel from 31° S. lat., to the furthest south obtained, but never found 

 it breeding.] 





