io6 Southern Cross. 



IV. AVES. 



By E. BOWDLEE SHAEPE, L.L.D, F.L.S, etc. 



(Plates VII., VIIL, IX., X.) 



Mk. Howaed Saunders has contributed to the ' Antarctic Manual,' 

 published by the Eoyal Geographical Society, an admirable account 

 of the birds which occur within the Antarctic regions. The list of 

 specimens obtained by the ' Southern Cross ' was placed at his disposal, 

 and I have had no hesitation in extracting from his memoir 

 above-mentioned such notes as seem to me of importance for the 

 present volume. 



I have received from Mr. Borchgrevink only one note-book of the 

 late Nicolai Hanson, which consists merely of a list of the specimens 

 collected by the latter between October 13th, 1898, and January 19th, 

 1899. Tlds list is of no actual importance, and adds nothing to 

 our knowledge, since Mr. Hanson, like the careful naturalist that he 

 was, has given exactly the same information on the labels attached 

 to the specimens. Of the Emperor Penguins {A2)tenodytes forsteri) 

 there is no record in the note-book which I received from the 

 commander of the ' Southern Cross ' expedition, and as there was only 

 a number pinned on to the breast of each specimen, with no corre- 

 sponding MS. notes handed over to me, the exact dates of the 

 capture of these birds cannot be recorded. The list of the specimens 

 delivered to the British Museum does not entirely correspond with 

 that siven in Nicolai Hanson's note-book, and shows that several are 

 missing. No skeletons were received by the Museum, though 

 Mr. Hanson's private ' Diary ' (vide supra, p. 99) expressly records 

 the preparation of at least two of those of the Emperor Penguin. 

 Eight skeletons are also mentioned by him on the 27th of October 

 (infra, p. 82), but these also did not reach me. 



In the official account of his expedition, Mr. Borchgrevink (' First 

 on the Antarctic Continent,' App. pp. 320-324), publishes in the 

 Appendix some " Zoological Notes by Mr. Nicolai Hanson," which, 



