164 Southern Cross. 



Moseley, Notes, Nat. ' Challenger; pp. 180, 183 (1879, Crozet Islands), p. 254 

 (margin of the pack ice) ; Saunders, P. Z. S., 1880, p. 165 (lat. 37° 59' S., 

 long. 29° 18' E.); Scl. Ibis, 1894, p. 498 (edge of pack ice); Hanson in 

 Borcligr. Ant. Cont. App., p. 322 (1901.) 



Phcebetria fuliginosa, Gould, Handb. B. Austr., II., j). 441 (18G5) ; Coues, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1866, pp. 186, 188 ; Gigl., Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 60 (1870) ; 

 Baird, Brewer and Ridgw., Water Birds, N .Amer., II., p. 359 (1884); 

 Salvin, Cat. 13. Brit. Mus., XXVL, p. 453 (1896) ; Saunders, Antarctic Manual, 

 p. 230 (1901) ; Bernacchi, S. Polar Regions, p. 316 (1901). 



Diomeda fuliginosa, Borchgrevink, First on Antarctic Cont., pp. 53, 54 (1901). 



Sooty Albatros, Hanson, antea, pp. 82, 83, 93; id. in Borchgr. Ant. Cont. App., 

 p. 324. 



No. 7, D, $. 42° 23' S.L., 20° 32' E.L., Oct. 24th, 1898. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black, with a white streak on either side of 

 the lower mandible ; feet and webs greyish brown. 

 No. 23, D, 9 ad. Nov. 8th, 1898. 

 Iris dark brown ; a blue edge along the under mandible. 

 No. 24, D, $ ad. 45° 9' S.L., 77° 30', Nov. 9th, 1898. 

 No. 25, D, 9 ad. 45 9' S.L., 77° 30', Nov. 10th, 1898. 



The Sooty Albatros has also a wide range over the Southern 

 oceans, and extends to the edge of the ice-pack, where a specimen 

 was obtained by the ' Challenger ' on the 10th of February, 1874. 

 Mr. Hanson's diary records many observations of the species, and 

 his first specimen was obtained in the Cape seas on the 24th of 

 October, 1898. On the voyage to Tasmania it was seen on the 2nd 

 of November, and thence nearly all the way thither (p. 82). On the 

 24th and 28th of December the Sooty Albatros was seen on the 

 voyage from Hobart to the ice-pack, but it was last seen on the 30th 

 when nearing the latter, which it did not enter. When the * Southern 

 Cross ' left the ice-pack for its second attempt to penetrate to Cape 

 A dare, this Albatros was observed directly the ship regained the 

 open sea (p. 93). 



Mr. Bernacchi (p. 316) states that the Sooty Albatros actually 

 entered the ice-pack, and was occasionally seen during the month of 

 January, 1899, but I think that the Ossifraga must have been 

 mistaken for the present species, as it seems almost certain that 

 Hanson would have recorded the fact. 



