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coast birds had disappparod. The ocean birds accompanied 

 the ship the whole way from (*ape Town to the Kerguelen 

 Islands. Cape Pigeons were met with in numbers on 23rd 

 Deceml)er, near the Crozet Isles. On Xmas da}^ a land 

 expedition was organised on the Possession Isles, which re- 

 sulted in the discovery of two new species — a Duck and a 

 Cormorant — named by Prof. Reichenow Anas dr>j<iahkii and 

 Plialacrocora.r ranholfeni respectively. Heard Island was 

 reached on 3rd February, where fresh batches of Cape 

 Pigeons greeted the expedition. Landing in Corinthian Bay 

 a new species of Chionls was discovered — named by Reichenow 

 C. naslcoruh. — On 7th February the first iceberg was seen. 

 On 22nd February, 1902, in 6(j° 2' 9" S. lat. and 89° 38' 

 E. long., the ship was frozen up for a period of fifty weeks I 

 On 8th February, 1903, the winter-quarters were left behind. 

 On the 31st May, in the neighbourhood of Port Natal, Sula 

 capensis, Lestris antarctica were seen, also Majaqueus and 

 Tlialassogeron. The author w^as able, on six occasions, to 

 observe the going and coming of the coast birds of Cape 

 Town — during the months of October, November, December, 

 and August, — and arrives at the conclusion that Lestris, Sula, 

 Phalacrocoracc, Larus dominicanus, and Sphenisnis of their own 

 free will hardly wander further than 2'^ lat. = 120 sea miles 

 from the coast. The ship left Simonstown on 2nd August, 

 1903, and reached the Elbe on 23rd November, after an 

 adventurous but pleasant trip. The deeply interesting article 

 is illustrated by a clear chart giving the distribution of the 

 sea-birds — i. e. the northern and southern limits of the more 

 locally distributed species, as observed by the "Gauss'' 

 expedition. 



(9) Thk October number (1905) of the 'Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie ' contains a further contribution to the Bird- 

 fauna of North-east Africa, by the late Carlo von Erlanger. 

 The article is again illustrated by a series of tine }ilates. 



