2 Mr. R. Hall on the 



best work was done at that time. The expedition of II.M.S. 

 ' Challenger ' in the same year followed. Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 (Phil. Trans, vol. clxviii.) has published a summary of the work 

 in ornithology done up to 1879. 



We visited the whole eastern coast of ninety miles, exeept 

 Christmas Harbour ; but with only seven weeks on land 

 (from Dec. 28tli, 1897, to Feb. 13th, 1898) to devote to the 

 varied work of collecting and observing plants and animiils, 

 minute attention could be given only to lloyal Sound and 

 Greenland Harbour. 



AYith a favourable and warm season, I was able to collect 

 skins of more birds than any one of the previous expeditions, 

 and I added tAvo to the list of 33 species given by Dr. Sharpe 

 as found on the island. But, prior to reading this paper, it 

 would be well to consult the reports of Dr. Kidder"^ and. the 

 Eev. E. C. Eatont ("Transit of Venus''), to which this 

 paper is chiefly supplementary. It may be added that 

 Mr. Sclater has referred in 'The Ibis' to two or three of 

 these species observed since 1879 in much higher latitudes. 



The nomenclature here adopted is chiefly that of the 

 ' Catalogue of Birds in the Biitish Museum.' 



Phalacrocorax verrucosus (Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 393). 



My remarks on this Cormorant relate principally to five 

 small rookeries, Mhich were placed along one cliif a few 

 hundred yards in extent. The birds were so tame that they 

 walked up to and surrounded you, sometimes so closely that, 

 when photographing a group, it Avas necessary to drive them 

 back, in order that a good view might be obtained. One 

 usually looks upon this family as " handy " with their 

 bills, and, for myself, I keep out of range ; but when 

 my friend Mr. Evans J put his pocket-knife between the 

 mandibles of one, the bird did not bite, and when he tried 

 his fingers, at my wicked suggestion, even then no harm 



* Miscell. Coll. Smithsonian Institution, vol. xiii. (1877). 

 t Phil. Trans, vol. clxviii. (1879). 



t Subsequently in the South Polar Seas with the 'Southern Cross,' as 

 Naturalist. 



