146 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Halobaena mttrphyi, sp. nov. 



Type. — Adult unsexed, M. C. Z. 70,725. Stromness Bay, South 

 Georgia, collected during the summer of 1913. Collector not known. 

 The type was presented to me by a storekeeper in the customs service 

 at Port Stanley who had resided at South Georgia, and had kept this 

 skin with a miscellaneous collection of curios. 



Characters. — Similar to H. caerulea with the exception of the bill 

 which in murphyi is much smaller, less slender, and wider at the base 

 in proportion to its length. 



Measurements. — Type, adult: wing, 212; tarsus 31; bill, 25. 



1 take pleasure in dedicating this new species to Mr. Robert Cush- 

 man Murphy whose recent studies of Tubinares have contributed so 

 much of value and interest to our knowledge of this little-known group. 



Petrella capensis (Linne). 

 Cape Pigeon. 



Abundant about the steamer a day's steaming north of Port Stanley 

 on October 3. 



Diomedea exuans Linne. 

 Wandering Albatross. 



Two were noted on October 3, a day's run north of Port Stanley. 



On entering the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan on March 16, 

 1916, a dozen followed us for two days north in a heavy gale, leaving 

 the day before we anchored at Coronel. 



Diomedea melanophrys Boie. 

 Mollymauk. 



Several of these birds were seen on September 6, at 20 degrees S. 

 not far from the Brazilian coast, and also between Montevideo and 

 Port Stanley during the first week of October. 



