1. MBGALKSTEIS. 



321 



Edward, Marion, Crozet, Kerguelon, and Heard Islands to New- 

 Zealand and its islets, Australian waters, and up to Norfolk Island ; 

 also St. I'aul and Amsterdam islands and as far north as Madagascar 

 and the Comoro Islands ; perhaps Ceylon. 



n, h. Ad. St. & sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. 8k. 



/, g. Vix ad. et pull. 



sk. 

 h. Imm. sk. 



i. 2 imui. sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 



/. Vix ad. sk. 



m-o. S.A. et vix ad. 

 sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 



q. Imm. St. 



r. Ad. sk. 



«. 5 ad. sk. 



t. Ad. sk. 



u. Vix ad. sk. 



v-y. c? 2 ^^•'■< ^• 

 Juv. ; rt', V . Pull. 

 sk. 



c'. Skeleton. 



Campbell Island (below New 



Zealand). 

 Campbell Island. 

 Campbell Island, Dec. IG, 



1840. 

 New Zealand. 

 Chatham Islands. 



Norfolk Island. 



Lat. 36° 8' S., long. 88° 55' E. 



Between New Zealand and 

 Cape of Good Hope, April 

 2, 1892. 



Royal Sound, Kerguelen 

 Island. 



Cliristmas Harbour, Kergue- 

 len Island, May and June 

 1840 {Br. R. M'Cormick). 



Christmas Harbour, Jau. 1874. 



South African seas. 



Inacessible Island, oft' Tristan 



da Cuuha, Oct. 16, 187o. 

 Falkland Islands. 



Falkland Islands, April 15 



(Falkland Is. Co.). 

 Falkland Islands (Leconte). 

 Falkland Islands (Cameron). 



Christmas Harbour, Kergue- 

 len Island. 



Lieut. A. Smith, 



R.N. [P.]. 

 Antarctic Exped. 

 Dr. R. McCormick, 



R.N. [P.]. 

 Sir Geo. Grey [P.]. 

 H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 F. M. Rayner, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir Geo. Grey [PJ. 

 R. B. Marston, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Rev. A. E. Eaton 



[C.]. _ 

 Antarctic Exped. & 



McCormick Be- 

 quest [P.]. 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger ' 



Exped. 

 Sir Andrew Smith 



[P.]. 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger ' 



Exped. 

 II.M.S. 'Challenger' 



Exped. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 H. Saunders Coll. 



H.M.S. ' Challenger 

 E.xped. 



4. Megalestris maccormicki. (Plate I.) 



" Lestris, apparently a new species," R. McCormick, Voi/. Di-^cov. 



Antarctic, i. p. 154 (1884 : Possession I., Victoria Land, 71° 56' 



S., 171° 15' E. : Voy. ' Erebus ' & ' Terror.') 

 Stercorariiis antarcticus, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 322 (edge of 



Antarctic pack-ice, ut supra) ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 393 



(1878: distribution). 

 Stercorarius maccormicki, Saunders, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. 



p. xii (Dec. 30th, 1893 : Possession I., Victoria Land). 



Adult. Much paler than M. antarctica : crown clove-brown : 

 acuminate feathers of the nape and neck all round strongly marked 

 with golden straw-colour, and the upper breast streaked with the 



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