observed during the Voyage of the 'Valhalla.' 667 



his winter-cruise on the ' Valhalla/ and we left Cowes for 

 Las Palmas on November 6th. 



A few hours before our departure I saw a young Sabine's 

 Gull (Xema sabinii) flying round the ship in Cowes roads 

 in company with Kittiwakes and Herring-Gulls. In the Bay 

 I saw Manx Shearwaters, Gannets, and Storm-Petrels, and a 

 Greenfinch, a Willow-Wren, and a Stock-Dove came on 

 board. 



Just before sighting Gran Canaria many small Petrels 

 (Oceanodroma castro) followed the ship, as well as numbers 

 of Leach's Petrel (O. leucorrhoa), and the latter species was 

 our constant companion down to a little south of the Line. 

 On November 13th we anchored at Las Palmas. During 

 our stay there I obtained examples of the following species or 

 birds : — Sylvia conspicil/ata, Phylloscopus rufus fortunatus, 

 Anthus bertheloti, Motacilla boarala, Parus teneriffce, Car- 

 duelis elegans parva (Tsch.), Linota cannabina nana (Tsch.), 

 Erythrospizagithaginea, Passer hispaniolensis, Petronia rupes- 

 tris, Emberiza miliaria thanneri (Tsch.), Larus cachimians, 

 and Puffinus kuhli. 



On November 22nd we finally left Las Palmas for 

 St. Paul's Rocks, while two days later a Song-Thrush 

 (1 ' urdus musicus) flew round the ship. On December 2nd 

 we reached St. Paul's Rocks, but owing to the swell were 

 unable to land. All the three species of sea-birds met Avith 

 on our visit in 1902 (cf. Ibis, 1904, p. 36) were seen in 

 fairly large numbers and a few sharks were caught. As 

 the sea shewed no sign of going down, we left for Bahia. 

 During the passage we saw several Shearwaters {Pujfinus 

 kuhli) and Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) , but nothing 

 eventful happened until December 7th, when in lat. 7° 14' S., 

 long. 34° 25' W., Mr. Meade-Waldo and I saw a remarkable 

 sea-creature, which we have written of elsewhere *. 



* See P. Z. S. June 19th, 1906. 



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