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it will be seen, correspond to the records of the same dates in his 

 private ' Diary,' as written to his wife {vide supra, pp. 80-83). 



In Mr. Hanson's ' Diary ' mention is made of the shooting of 

 numbers of specimens of birds in the pack-ice, few^ oi" which appear 

 to have reached the British Museum : this is especially the case 

 with the Adelia Penguins, and but for the series obtained by Mr. Hugh 

 Evans near Cape Adare, there would have been bnt a poor series of 

 this interesting species. Mr. Evans informs me that his notes on the 

 Penguins were handed over to Mr. Borchgrevink, but they appear to 

 have been lost or left behind at Hobart Town, and have not been 

 available for the present memoir. Such skins as have reached the 

 Museum were beautifully prepared: in fact, better specimens of 

 taxidermy than those preserved by Mr. Hanson and Mr. Evans have 

 never come under my notice. 



Under the heading of each species I have given a list of the 

 specimens handed over to the British Museum by Mr. Borchgrevink. 

 The first set has been presented to the nation liy Sir George Newnes, 

 who has given such duplicates as remained to public institutions at 

 home and abroad. 



I have done my best, in the unexpected al)sence of official note- 

 books, to afford some idea of the distribution and natural history of 

 the various species, by giving a reference to the works which contain 

 records of Antarctic zoology, as has been done by Captain Ban-ett 

 Hamilton with the Seals, and the jottings from the MS. in Mrs. 

 Nicolai Hanson's possession are not the least interesting of the obser- 

 vations on the zoology of the South Polar regions. 



Dr. H. 0. Forbes gives a ' List of the Birds in the Derby 

 Museum collected in the Antarctic Kegions ' (Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. 

 pp. 48-50), and records a Teal {Nettion fiavirostre), a Plover 

 (u-^gialitis falklandica), and a Grebe (Podicipes calipareus). All three 

 species are said to have been obtained at Victoria Land. Without 

 affirming that this is impossible, it seems to me highly improbable. 



