1 62 Sotithern Cross. 



No. 20 B, 9 ad. 44° 23' S.L., 72° 5' E.L., Nov. 7th, 1898. Soft 

 parts as above. 



No. 22 B, $ ad. 44° 2?.' S.L., 72° 5' E.L., Nov. 7th, 1898. Soft 

 parts as above. 



Although Mr. Hanson has given the colour of the bill as the same 

 in all the specimens, there is a good deal of black near the tip. In 

 some the general colour of the back is rather browner, and the white 

 head and neck are shaded with grey ; all these points I believe to be 

 characteristic of the immature bird. 



The first specimens captured by Mr. Hanson were those of 

 October 13th, 1898, which he prepared on the following day {antea, 

 p. 81). The species is also recorded as the " Yellow-billed Molly- 

 mawk " on November 6th and 7th (p. 82) ; and he again mentions it 

 by this name as noticed after leaving Hobart, on the 21st and 24th 

 of December. It was one of the species which accompanied the ship 

 to the ice-pack, but left before it entered the ice on the 30th of 

 December (p. 83). On emerging from the pack in February, the 

 Yellow-billed MoUymawk was again seen (p. 93). Mr. Borchgre- 

 vink observed the species on the same days recorded above by Mr. 

 Hanson, He also records " Diomeda chlororhynclia " [sic], as having 

 been noticed by him on the 26th of December^ six days after leaving 

 Hobart, but the species is not mentioned by Mr. Hanson. 



The latter states {antea, p. 13) that the " Short-tailed" Albatros 

 was also seen on nearing Tasmania, on the 27th of November. Mr. 

 Borchgrevink also says that on leaving Tasmania " the Short-tailed 

 Albatros followed the ship, until the 20th December, when no more 

 were to be seen" (pp. 52, 53). Which species of Albatros is here 

 intended I cannot determine, but it cannot have been the Short-tailed 

 Albatros [Diomedea hracUyura) of Gould's ' Handbook ' (II., p. 433), 

 which is the northern D. albatrus of Pallas [cf. Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. XXV., p. 444]. 



THALASSOGERON, Eidgw. 



1. THALASSOGERON CULMINATUS. 



Diomedea culminata, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 361 (1844, 

 Soutli Pacific and Atlantic Oceans); id., B. Austr., VII., pi. 41 (1848); id., 

 Handb. B. Austr., II., p. 436 (1865); Sharpe, Phil. Trans., CLXVIII. (extra 

 vol.), p. 147 (1879) ; Moseley, Notes Nat. ' Challenger; p. 129 (1879, Tristan 

 da Cunha), p. 183 (Crozet Islands) ; Hanson in Borchgr. Ant. (.!ont. App., 

 pp. 322, 333 (1901). 



