PELAGODROMA MARINA.—OCEANITES OCEANICUS. 44.7 
[§ 5148. Oxe.—Porto Santo, 26 June, 1894. From Mr. 
Dresser, 1896. 
Obtained, I believe, from Padre E. Schmitz, of Madeira. ] 
PELAGODROMA MARINA (Latham). 
FRIGATE PETREL. 
[§ 5149. Oxe—Grand Salvage Island, 27 April, 1895. From 
Mr. Dresser, 1896. 
Obtained by Mr. Ogilvie Grant, whose interesting discovery of a breeding- 
station of this species at the Salvage Islands is described in ‘The Ibis’ for 
1896 (pp. 51-53). | 
OCEANITES OCEANICUS (Kuhl). 
WILSON’S PETREL. 
[§ 5150. One.—Jessie Bay, Laurie Island, South Orkney, 
28 January, 1904. From the Scottish National 
Antarctic Expedition, through Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, 
1906. , 
Most kindly given to me by Mr. Clarke, with the approval of 
Mr. Bruce, being one of the eight specimens obtained by the Expedition. 
Writing from the materials placed at his disposal by the various members of it, 
Mr. Clarke, in his “ Account of the Birds of the South Orkney Islands,” states 
(Ibis, 1906, pp. 166-168) that this species is a common summer-visitor to them, 
resorting by thousands to breed in the cliffs of Laurie Island. “There was 
no attempt at nest-making, the egg was simply laid in a hollow in the earth 
in narrow clefts and fissures in the-face of the cliffs, under boulders, and some- 
times under stones on the screes sloping from the foot of the precipice, at heights 
varying from 20 to 300 feet above the sea-level.... Some of the eggs were 
laid at such a distance from the entrance that a spoon had to be lashed to a 
long bamboo in order to reach them. The searchers could hear the low whistle 
uttered every few seconds by the sitting bird, but on reaching the spot whence 
it seemed to proceed the sound would appear to come from an entirely different 
direction.... Eight eegs average 33°7X24mm, ‘The largest is 86x24 mm., 
and the smallest is 82x23 mm.” A photograph ofa bird sitting on its egg—the 
only one taken, and that by a happy chance—is also given by Mr. Clarke (pl. x.), 
who afterwards, writing to me, said the precise spot whence this egg came was 
the rocks at the north end of East Glacier in North Bay, a small indentation of 
Jessie Bay. | 
