Aves. 139 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES 

 OCEANITIS, Keys. u. Bias. 



OCEANITES OCEA.NICUS. 

 Procellaria oceaniea. Kuhl., Beitr., p. 136 (1820), ex Bauks's Icon., no. 12. 



11 218 ^Victoria l^anci, ureeiuii^sj,, j->uv.y, [-. -oj. v.^&&" ""~ :i \t , • r „„ i\ 



De; 10) ; Bernacchi, South Polar Regions, p. 204 (1901 Sou 1. Victona Laml), 

 p. 315 (Cape Adare)_; Howard Saunders, Antarctic Manual, p. ^3o (IJUi; , 

 Hanson, antea, pp. 85-88. 

 No. 64, L. 9 ad. Killed on the pack-ice, 63° 41' S.L., 160° 16' 

 E.L., Jan. 2iid, 1899. 



Iris dark brown; bill black; feet black; webs yellow [vide 



supra, -p. S5]. roo .0, qt ir.rrV 



No. 65, L. ^ ad. Killed on the pack-ice, 6.3 43 h.L., ibi d 



EL., Jan. 8th, 1899. 



Soft parts as above [w'f^c s^^p'ft, p. 86]. 



Nos. 78, 79, L. ? ad. Killed on the pack-ice, 65° 3 fe.L., 161 

 Soft parts as above [vide supra, p. 87]. ^ 



No. 81, L. ? . Killed on the pack-ice, 66° 4^' S.L., 166 51 E.L., 



Jan. 19th, 1899 [vide supra, p. 88]. 



a. h. c. d. e. (J ad. Cape Adare. Dec. 13th, 1889. (H. B. Evans.) 



f. ? ad. 



As Mr. Howard Saunders points out, the breeding-place of 

 Wilson's Petrel is undoubtedly in the southern area of the globe, 

 and the occurrences of the species in higher latitudes take place after 

 the nesting-season when the bird migrates in the direction of the 

 equator, and occurs sometimes off the coasts of Great Britain and 

 North America. I copy the following from Mr. Saunders' article m 

 the 'Antarctic Manual ':-" This bird is not much larger than our 

 familiar ' Mother Carey's Chicken,' from which, as from any other 

 of the small blackish Petrels, it can be distinguished by its unusually 

 lon<T leers, and the bright yeUow colour of the webs between the toes. 

 It was" observed by Dr. McCormick hovering, like a Swallow or 

 Martin over the mast-heads of the 'Urcbus' when m the pack ; and, 

 on the third attempt to go southwards, examples (now m the British 

 Museum) were obtained off Louis Philippe Land m January, 184.,. 



