264 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 



Island, but he does not appear to have brought back speci- 

 mens procured there. Salvin (Cat. B. xxv. p. 435} says that 

 it is found between 35° and 60° S. ; but it has not, so far as 

 I am aware, been recorded from Tristan da Cunha.] 



17. Pelecanoides urinatkix (Gm.). 



The collection contains a single example which was captured 

 from the ' Scotia' while her party of explorers was ashore on 

 the 22nd of April, 1904. According to a coloured drawing, 

 made at the time of capture, the tarsus and toes in life are 

 cobalt-blue and the webs and claws black. 



No Pelecanoides has hitherto been recorded, I believe, for 

 any of the islands of the Tristan group ; and if we follow 

 Salvin and regard P. urinatrix and P. exsul as distinct, 

 then a very considerable extension eastwards of the range 

 of this species is indicated by its occurrence at Gough Island, 

 for it does not appear to have been previously obtained in 

 the South Atlantic elsewhere than at the Falkland Islands. 

 It is even possible that it breeds at Gough Island, for Verrill 

 (t. c. p. 449) mentions under this species that there is an 

 egg obtained there in Mr. Comer's collection which is 

 " supposed " to be that of a " Diver." This egg measures 

 157 x 1*6 inch as against 1*54 X 1'26 and 1"52 x T23 for eggs 

 of Pelecanoides obtained by Mr. Comer, together with skins, 

 at Kerguelen, and hence the P. exsul of Salvin (t. c. p. 438). 



18. Diomedea exulans Linn. 



Many Albatroses of this species were observed around the 

 'Scotia' as she layoff the island from the 21st to 23rd of 

 April, but no specimens were obtained. 



Mr. Comer (Verrill, /. c. p. 437) says that this species is 

 common at Gough Island and breeds there. It commenced 

 to lay at the end of December; he obtained the first 

 eggs on the 26th of that month, and found them quite 

 plentiful by the 3rd of January. The young, he says, must 

 be ten months old before they can fly, and not more than five 

 per cent, live to leave their nests ; they are killed by the 

 Skuas and Giant Petrels. Mr. Comer considers that the 

 Gousrh Island race is smaller than those from the other 



