82. Southern Cross. 



specimens of Diomedea fuliginosa, the first of this kind we have seen on 

 the voyage, t. c, p. 323.] 



October -ISrd. Lat. 42^ 1' S., Long. 20^ 32' iJ.— Caught a Cape Pigeon. 

 [" It had not started moulting." N. H. App. to Borchgrevink, p. 322.] 



October 2Uh. Lat. 42^ 23' S., Long. 20^^ 32' £.— This morning, as 

 soon as I came on deck, I caught a large Albatros and two other Dlomedese 

 with black-and -yellow bills. ^ In the afternoon we shot some birds. The 

 Englishmen shot from a boat sixteen birds. I shot sixteen birds fi'om 

 the ship and eleven from the boat. Saw two nearly white birds to-day 

 about the size of a Kittiwake (Larus tridactylus). 



October 27th. — Have to-day prepared the last of the birds we killed on 

 the 24th. I have now forty-one skins and eight skeletons.^ I hope we 

 may soon get a calm again, so that I can get some more work. Numbers 

 of birds follow the ship every day. 



October 2dth. Lat. W 26' S., Long. 37° jEJ.— This morning I caught a 

 large Albatros. It is a little darker than the first, and perhaps a year 

 younger. The number of Albatroses about the ship increases every day. 

 Last night I observed at one time eight large ones. 



October SOth. — Saw a white bird as large as a Mollymawk. Short ; 

 high bill ; a few dark spots under the belly and wings ; wings narrow ; 

 tail straight across. On the 24th I observed two similar birds, but 

 smaller (of the size of a Puffinus). 



November 1st. — Passed the Crozet Islands, ten miles off, but out of 

 sight. Saw some Penguins. 



November 2nd. — Caught this evening three Cape Pigeons, two Alba- 

 troses with black-and-yellow bills, and one Sooty Albatros. Saw a 

 Giant Petrel this afternoon (I am, however, not quite sure of it). This 

 was the last time I observed Cape Pigeons in flocks before, we came to 

 Tasmania. Saw a small Whale while I was busy catching birds ; it was 

 like a " Bottle-nose." 



November 6th. Lat. W 20' S., Long. 68° 28' iJ.— Numbers of birds 

 about the ship. Have caught four black-billed ^ and two Yellow-billed 

 Mollymawks.^ 



November 7th. — Caught six Mollymawks (two Yellow-billed) and four 

 Cape-hens.* 



November 8th. — Caught a yellow-billed Mollymawk.^ This afternoon 

 Bernacchi, Evans and I went out in a boat shooting. Bernacchi shot 

 two birds, I shot one Yellow-billed Mollymawk and four Cape-hens. 

 Colbeck shot a Sooty Albatros from the ship. 



November dth. — Caught two grey-headed Mollymawks with entirely 

 black bills, probably young birds. ^ 



November 10th. — This evening Colbeck caught two Sooty Albatroses 

 and one black-billed Mollymawk.-^ I caught three of the latter species. 



November 13th to ISth. — During these days I have caught four Molly- 

 mawks (three with black bills) and a Pujimis, but I have skinned none of 

 them, as at present we have no more room for storing the skins. The 

 Cape Pigeons have now left us entirely, and the birds which are usually 

 seen about the ship are : The large Albatros, the Sooty Albatros, Molly- 



* Thalassogcron culminatus. Vide infra, p. 82. — R. B. S. 



- No skeletons of birds were received by the British Museum. — R. B. S. 



^ Thalassogcron culminatus, juv. — R. B. S. * Majagucus acij_uinoctialis. — R. B. S. 



^ Diomedea melanophrys. — R. B. S, 



