146 Son f her II Cross. 



ohUiined l»y the ' BcUjica' just before her escape from tlie pack-ice, on 

 :\Iar(h 14th, 1899, in Lat. 70° 40' S., and Long. 102^ W. ; while the 

 ' Challciujer ' brought back one example, taken on the edge of the 

 l)ack, in about GG° S. Lat., on the Uth of February, 1874." 



This species is doubtless one of the " three new species of birds " 

 wliich met the ' Southern Cross,' when the ship entered the pack-ice 

 oil the 3(ith of December {s^ipra, p. 83). On the 31st {siqyra, p. 84) 

 ^Ir. Hanson shot several specimens of the Silver Petrel, which, as 

 he truly observes, is very like the Fulmar {Fulmarus glacialis) of the 

 northern seas. "While laying fast in the ice, he shot a number of 

 specimens on the 11th and 12th of January (sujjra, pp. 86, 87), and 

 again on the 30th (p. 91). Two were shot by Mm on the 6th of 

 February (p. 92) ; and he saw the species again on the 12th of that 

 month, when the ' Southern Cross ' returned to the open sea, before 

 making a second endeavour to get through the pack-ice. 



Mv. Borchgrevink (p. 65) speaks of this species as being, next to 

 Pcujodroma, the best represented in the pack-ice. " They were always 

 seen swimming about in the open spaces in the ice, seeking food, 

 which mainly consisted of Crustacea. Only in a few instances a very 

 small fish, like a Herring in shape, has been found in them." 



MAJAQUEUS, Eeichenb. 



MaJAQUEUS iEQUINOCTIALIS. 



Procellaria aequinoctialis, Liim., Syst. Nat., I., p. 213 (1760); Moselej', Notes 

 Nat. Chall., \>. 137 (1W7U, Tristan da Cuiiha) ; Milue-Edwards and Grand., 

 Hist. :Madag. Ois., p. 671 (1«85). 



Procellaria conspicillata, Gould, B. Austr., VII., pi. 4G (1848). 



Majaqueus sequixioctialis, Coues, Proc. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1804, pp. 118, 142; 

 Gigl., Faun. Vert. Uceauo, p. 35 (1870) ; Salvin, in Rowley's l>rn. Misc., I., 

 p. 232 (1870); Sharpe, Phil. Trans., CLXVIII. (extra vol.), p. 119 (1879, 

 Royal Sound, Kerguelen) ; Moseley, Notes Nat. Chall., p. 208 (1879, 

 Kerguelen), p. 254 (edge of pack ice) ; Saunders, P. Z. S., 1880, p. 104 

 (lat. 29° 45'— 34° 39' S., long. 8° 51' E.); Sharpe, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 12 

 (ValiKiraiso); Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mas., XXV., p. 395 (1890); Sharpe, Haud- 

 Vm n.. I., p. 125 (1899). 



Majaqueus conspicillatus, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1864, pp. 118, 

 14-J; Gould, iiaudb. B. Austr., II., p. 445 (1865); Gigl., Faun. Vert. Oceano, 

 p. 36 (1870;. 



CnjMj lieu. liansoD, /. s. c, pp. 81, 82. 



26 C. S ad. 42° 23' S.L., 20° 32' E.L., Oct. 24th, 1898. 

 Iris dark brown; bill yellow; feet and webs black. This 

 spt'ciniiii lias a patch of wliite feathei's in the middle of the abdomen. 



