COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM ANTARCTIC REGIONS. 49 
Dr. M‘Cormick notes haying observed cormorants at Louis Philippe Land (cf, 
‘*Ross’s Voyage to the Southern Seas,” Vol. ii., App. iv., p. 420, 1847). 
IMPENNES. 
Aptenodytes forsteri, (./.G’. 
The Derby Museum possesses of this rare species an adult, an immature specimen 
and a skeleton, labelled ‘‘ Antarctic Seas.” 
Pygoscelis adeliz (Hombr. & Jacq.). 
Three specimens of this bird are in the Museum ; two adult birds (one sexed as a 
female) and an immature bird labelled ‘‘ Antarctic Seas, Lat. 65° S, Long. 60° 
W.” 
The Museum possesses an egg, undoubtedly that of a penguin, labelled by (?) Dr. 
Hooker, ‘‘ Penguin, Island 64° S, Jan. 6, 1843.” From ‘ Ross’s Voyage to the 
Southern Seas,” ii. pp. 335, ef seq. (1847), we find the position quoted must be 
Cockburn Island, where Dr. Hooker landed on the 6th January for some three 
hours, and where, ‘‘ Besides penguins [P. ade/iv] and cormorants [ Ph. atriceps | 
innumerable, we found the beautiful white petrel [Pagodromu nivea] building its 
nest in the precipitous cliffs, about the debris which covers the sides and shores 
of the island, to the height of fourteen hundred feet from the beach. The eggs 
of this bird, which have never before been seen, are 2:2 inches long, 1°6 inch 
broad, and weigh from six hundred to seven hundred and fifty grains; they are 
of a bluish white colour, and only one egg, with the young in a forward state, 
was found in each nest, which was formed of a few feathers on the bare rock. 
The young birds are of a deep lead colour.” There is also another egg in the 
collection from the same locality labelled, in the same hand as the penguin’s, 
**King Shag, Lat. 64:15° S, 6th January, 1843,” which is almost certainly that 
of Ph. atriceps, of which we have a skin procured on the same day. 
The two latest writers on the birds of Antarctica, Schalow (J.f.0., 1897, 
p. 524), and Sclater (Ibis, 1898, p. 429) record altogether twenty-two species, of 
which two are unidentified. The above list, if the localities are to be trusted 
—which we see no reason whatever to doubt—adds no less than three orders 
and five species to the list. 

The complete enumeration of the birds recorded from Antarctic latitudes 
is therefore as follows :— 
PASSERES. 
Corvus, sp. inc. 
ANSERES. 
Chlephaga, sp. inc. 
Nettion flavirostre. 
LIMICOLA. 
Chionis alba. 
fEgialitis falklandica. 
LARI. 
Sterna hirundinacea. 
Larus dominicanus. 
Leucopheus scoresbyi. 
Megalestris antarcticus. 
10 Megalestris maccormicki. 
TUBINARES. 
11 Phoebetria fuliginosa. 
12 Oceanites oceanicus. 
13 Majaqueus equinoctialis. 
14 Priocella glacialoides. 
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