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eggs averaged 1*23" x '9" in size. On both visits specimens 

 of the birds were shot for identification. 



It would be interesting to know where the actual line of 

 demarcation between the habitats of this species and Sterna 

 minuta occurs. The nearest place to this where I have taken 

 the Lesser Tern's eggs is in that paradise of waders and 

 sea-birds between Salonica and the mouth of the Vardar 

 River, and there the species is Sterna minuta. I believe that 

 &. minuta also breeds in the salt-marshes to the west of 

 Smyrna, but I liave not visited that place. 



7. Sterna media Horsf. (Cat. B. xxv. p. 86). 



On my second visit two pairs of this Tern were seen and 

 one individual was shot. Two nests were found, each with a 

 single egg, quite fresh. Our attention was first drawn to 

 the presence of this species by finding an egg, and then, 

 on waiting, one of the birds, easily recognised as distinct by 

 its yellow bill, came hovering over us. 



8. Anas boscas. 



A female of this Duck was shot on my first visit. It was 

 flushed from amongst some thick grass. 



III. — Ornithological Journal of a Voyage round the World 

 in the ' Valhalla' (November 1902 to August 1903). By 

 M. J. Nicoll, M.B.O.U. 



(Plate I.) 



In October last I received a kind invitation from the Earl 

 of Crawford, F.R.S., to accompany him, as Naturalist, during 

 his proposed cruise to the South Pacific, through the Straits 

 of Magellan, in his yacht ' Valhalla/ ll.Y.S. 



The 'Valhalla/ a full-rigged ship with auxiliary steam, 

 1700 tons displacement, left Cowes on November 19th, 1902. 

 The last birds that I saw in English waters were a number of 

 Black Scoters ((Edemia nigra), which we observed just before 

 we reached the Needles. Early on Nov. 20th we passed 

 Ushant and entered the Bav. It was very much warmer 



