Aves. 147 



37, 38 C. <J ? ad. 44° 23' S.L., 72° 5' EX., Nov. 7th, 1898. 

 40 C. ? ad. 44^ 23' S.L., 72° 5' E.L. Soft parts as above. 



This large Petrel was first obtained in the Cape Seas on the 24th 

 of October, 1898 ; and, on the voyage to Hobart Town, as many as 

 eight specimens were obtained on Nov. 7th and 8th in Lat. 44° 23' 

 S., Long. 72° 5' E. ; of these, three appear to have been preserved 

 {su]ira, p. 82). Mr. Hanson also records the species as having been 

 seen about the ship from Nov. 13th to the 18th ; but by the 25th of 

 that month he remarks that they had nearly all disappeared (p. 82). 



CE ST RE LAT A, Bp. 



(ESTRELATA MOLLIS. 



Procellaria mollis, Gould, Ann. and Mag. N. H., XI [J., p. 363 (1844); id., 

 B. Austr., VIL, pi. 50 (1848); Layard, lUs, 1862, p. 98 (lat. 44° S., 

 long. 138° E.), 1872, p. 337 Oat. 8° 40' N., long. 34° 31' W.); Newton, Ihis, 

 1863, p. 186 (Madeira), 1868, \\ 340. 



.aSstrelata mollis, Coues, rroc, Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1866, pp. 150, 170; 

 Gould, Hanelb. B. Austr., II., p. 453 (1865); Gigl., Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 42 

 (1870). 



CEstrelata mollis, Salvin, Ihis, 1877, p. 480; id., P. Z. S., 1878, p. 738 



(Nightingale Island); 8harpe, Phil. Trans., CLXVIIL, p. 128(1879); E.L. 



and L. C. Layard, Ihis, 1882, ^. 539 (New Caledonia, Feb., breeding); 



Dalgleish, Ihis, 1890, p. 386 (Portu Santo); Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXV., 



p. 406 (1896). 

 CEstrelata philippi, Saunders {nee Gray), P. Z. S., 1880, p. 164 (South Trinidad 



Island). 



No. 36 G. ? ad. 42° 23' S.L., 20° 32' E.L., Oct. 24th, 1898. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet and web grey. 



The single specimen obtained forms part of the great capture of 

 Petrels of Oct. 24th, 1898, all of which Mr. Hanson had prepared by 

 the 27th of the month {siqyra, pp. 81, 82). This was probably the 

 species which followed the ship on Oct. 6th and 16th {supra, p. 81). 



^ After leaving Hobart Town, Mr. Hanson {supra, p. 83) records some " white- 

 headed Petrels " as seen on the 24th of December, and it is doubtless this bird 

 which he calls CEstrelata lessoni, on December 30th. The latter species, he says, 

 left them on their approach to the ice-pack. Mr, Borchgrevink has a similar 

 record (p. 54). No specimen of (E. lessoni appears to have been secured. 



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