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with these lily-white beings, for thus one is saved from some cruel 

 disillusions. Its voice is shrill and disagreeable, and its ways are 

 deplorably low caste. It possesses the faculty of being sea-sick at 

 will ; and when one attempts to seize it, it discharges full in one's 

 face the oily contents of its chest. I can affirm, from personal 

 experience, that one does not come off with the perfume of the rose. 

 One must add, however, to do strict justice, that it merits extenuating 

 circumstances ; for this unpleasant habit of the bird serves as a pro- 

 tection for its feeble person, and that is a reason of a certain value." 



Genus OSSIFRAGA, Hombr. and Jacq. 



OSSIFKAGA GIGANTEA. 



Procellaria gigantea, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 563 (1788); Gould, B. Aust., VI I. , 

 p. Jo (1848). 



Ossifraga gigantea, Gigl., Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 48 (1870); Sharpe, Phil. 

 Trans., CLXVIll. (extra vol.), p. 142 (187'J, Kerguelen Isl.); Salvin, P. Z. S., 

 1878, p. 737; Moseley, Notes Nat. ^ ChaUenger,^ p. 134 (1879, Tristan da 

 Cunha), pp. 180, 183 (Crozet Islands), p. 205 (Kerguelen Isl.), p. 254 (edge of 

 pack-ice); Buller, B. N. Zeal, 2ud ed., II., p. 225 (1888); Salvin, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 422 (189(i); Racovitza, Vie des Aniniaux Antarct., p. 18 

 (1900); Borchgrevink, First on Antarctic Cont., p. 64 (1901); Saunders, 

 Antarctic Manual, p. 231 (1901); Beruacchi, S. Polar Regions, pp. 73, 316 

 (1901) ; Hanson, antea, pp. 86, 93, 94, 96. 



Giant Bird, Borchgrevink, t. c. p. 54 (1901). 



Gigantic Petrel, Borchgrevink, t. c. p. 220 (1901). 



Giant Petrel, Bruce in Burn Murdoch, Edinb. to Antarctic, p. 363 (1894, Danger 

 Isl.) ; Cook., First Antarctic Night, p. 229 (1900) ; Hanson, antea, pp. 82, 83, 

 86, 90. 



Nelly, Burn-Murdoch, Edinb. to Antarctic, p. 315 (1894). 



No. 80 M. ? ad. Pack-ice, 65' 43' S.L. 164° 91, EX., Jan. 16th, 

 1899. {Nicolai Hanson.) 



Iris brown ; bill dirty yellow ; feet sooty brown ; webs black. 



No. 2 $ alb. Campbell Island, May 28th, 1899. {Captain 

 Jensen.) 



a. h. $ 9 imra. Cape Adare, Jan. 2nd, 1900. {Hugh Evans.) 



c. 9 semi-alb. Cape Adare, Jan. 13th, 1900. {Hugh Evans.) 



The Campbell Island bird is pure white, excepting for a few 

 leaden grey feathers scattered over the back and breast. 



I take the following note on the distribution of this great Petrel 

 from Mr. Howard Saunders's essay in tlie Antarctic Manual ' 

 (pp. 230, 231) :— 



