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19. Diomedea exulans, Linn. 



Diomedea exulans, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 214; Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil., pp. 175. 866 ; Cones 

 and Kidder, Bull. Nat. Mm, No. 2, p. 11 ; Sharpe, Zool. Kerg., Birds, p. 45; Salv., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 740. 



[No. 574. Kerguelen. 



We found this bird (the Goney of the whalers) nesting at Marion Island, Possession 

 Island, and Kerguelen ; and during our cruises in the Southern and Antarctic Oceans, it 

 was an almost constant follower of the ship, except to the south of Heard Island, and in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of the Antarctic ice. Its habitat seems especially to be 

 the westerly winds of the Southern Ocean. The nests were at Kerguelen generally 

 scattered about on the mossy slopes of the headlands, and were often three hundred feet 

 above the sea. 



The nests are about one foot high, and two feet in diameter, and are built of earth, 

 grass, Azorella, and decayed vegetable matter. The nests are widely separated from each 

 other, that is to say, that I never saw two nests nearer to each than fifty yards. We 

 found one egg in each nest ; I saw no young during our visit (January). 



The whalers told us that they were very fond of the young Goneys, and ate great 

 numbers of them ; they were the best eating of any of the birds. 



They seem to have considerable difficulty in rising on the wing, from the places where 

 they build their nests. I noticed several run for over two hundred yards with extended 

 wings before they got fairly off. On many of our specimens there was a beautiful rose 

 tinge on each side of the head. 



The heaviest specimen we weighed was 19 lbs., and measured 11-6 from tip to tip of 

 the wings.] 



Eog- s of this Albatross from Kergmelen and Marion Island are in the collection. 

 Mr Moseley (Naturalist, p. 134) states that at Tristan da Cunha, this Albatross breeds 

 " actually within the crater of the terminal cone 7000 feet or more above the sea." Sec 

 also Mr Moseley's description of the breeding of this species on Marion Island (I.e., 

 p. 172). 



20. Diomedea brachyura, Temm. 



Diomedea brachyura, Temm., PI. Col., p. 554; Cones, Pr. Ac. Phil., 1866, p. 177; Salv., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 740. 



TNos. 517-519. Males. 1 

 L ,, „ , > North Pacific. 



No. 520. Female. j 



These were all caught with the hook from the ship while at sea in June and the first 



half of July 1874, between Japan and Honolulu; they followed the ship every day in 



numbers till we got into the trade-winds, when no more were observed. 



