82 SoutJicni Cross. 



specimens of Dloni'^den fuligitiosa, the first of this kind we have seen on 

 the vovftge, t. c, p. 323.] 



Ortnhrr 23r^. Lot. I2M' .S^., Lorn/. 20' 32' E.— Caught a Cape Pigeon. 

 I" It had ni.t started moulting." N. H. App. to Borchgrevink, p. 322.] 



October 24//». Lat. 42^ 23' S., Long. 20' 32' E.— This morning, as 

 mK)n as I camo on dock, I caught a large Albatros and two other Diomedese 

 with Mai-k-and-yellow bills.^ In the afternoon we shot some birds. The 

 Ktmiishiiu'ii shot from a boat sixteen birds. I shot sixteen birds from 

 tlie .ship and eleven from the boat. Saw two nearly white birds to-day 

 al»out the size of a Kittiwake (Larus tridactijlm). 



October 11 th. — Have to-day prepared the last of the birds we killed on 

 the 24th. I have now forty-one skins and eight skeletons.^ I hope we 

 may soon get a calm again, so that I can get some more work. Numbers 

 of birds follow the ship every day. 



October '29th. Lat. 44" 26' S., Long. 37" iJ.— This morning I caught a 

 large Albatros. It is a little darker than the first, and perhaps a year 

 younger. The number of Albatroses about the ship increases every day. 

 Last night I observed at one time eight large ones. 



October 30th. — Saw a white bird as large as a Mollymawk. Short ; 

 high bill ; a few dark spots under the belly and wings ; wings narrow ; 

 tail straight across. On the 24th I observed two similar birds, but 

 smaller (of the size of a Pajfiniis). 



November Ist. — Passed the Crozet Islands, ten miles off, but out of 

 sight. Saw some Penguins. 



November 2nd. — Caught this evening thi-ee Cape Pigeons, two Alba- 

 troses with black-and-yellow bills, and one Sooty Albatros. Saw a 

 Giant Petrel this afternoon (I am, however, not quite sure of it). This 

 was the last time I observed Cape Pigeons in flocks before we came to 

 Tasmania. Saw a small Whale while I was busy catching birds ; it was 

 like a " Bottle-nose." 



November Qth. Lat. 44' 20' S., Long. 68' 28' iJ.— Numbers of birds 

 about the ship. Have caught four black-billed^ and two Yellow-billed 

 Mollymawks.^ 



November 7th. — Caught six Mollymawks (two Yellow-billed) and four 

 Cape-hens.* 



November Sth. — Caught a yellow-billed Mollymawk.^ This afternoon 

 Bernacchi, Evans and I went out in a boat shooting. Bernacchi shot 

 two birds, I shot one Yellow-billed Mollymawk and four Cape-hens. 

 Colbeck .shot a Sooty Albatros from the ship. 



November 9//*. — Caught two grey-headed Mollymawks with entirely 

 black bills, probably young bii'ds.^ 



November \Oth. — ^This evening Colbeck caught two Sooty Albatroses 

 and one black-billed Mollymawk.^ I caught three of the latter species. 



November I'Sth to ISth. — During these days I have caught four ^Molly- 

 mawks (three with black bills) and a Puffiuus, but I have skinned none of 

 them, as at present we have no more room for storing the skins. The 

 Ca|H^ Pigeons have now left us entirely, and the birds which are usually 

 seen about the ship are : The large Albatros, the Sooty Albatros, Molly- 



• Tluilassogcron cnlmhudtis. Vide infra, p. 82.— R. B. S. 

 * No skeletons of birds were received by the British Museum.— R. B. S. 

 Tlialassogcron culminatiis, juv.— R. B. S. ♦ Majaquciis acfiuinoctialis.—B. B. S. 

 ^ Diomedea 7nela)wphrys.—R. B. S. 



