On the Birds of the Weddell and adjacent Seas. 325 
XV.-—Ornithological Results of the Scottish National Antarctic 
Expedition —III. On the Birds of the Weddell and ad- 
jacent Seas, Antarctic Ocean*. By Wm. Eaciue CiarKe, 
F.R.S.E., F.L.8., The Royal Scottish Museum. 
(Plate VII.) 
Tus instalment of the ornithological results of the voyage 
of the ‘Scotia’ deals with the bird-life observed in the 
Antarctic Ocean southwards of the 60th parallel of south 
latitude, and between the meridians of 12° and 45° of west 
longitude: in other words, the Weddell Sea and the waters 
fringing it on the north (see map, Pl. VII.). Previous to the 
voyages of the ‘Scotia,’ the Weddell Sea had only been 
visited by Capt. Weddell f, during lis marvellously successful 
cruise in 1823; by Morrell later in the same year; by 
Sir J. C. Ross, who traversed its waters in 1843; and, 
lastly, by Otto Nordenskjéld, who penetrated to its western 
portion in 1902. 
Mr. Bruce made two voyages into the Weddell Sea: the 
first in the late southern summer of 1908, and a second and 
more extended cruise in the same season of 1904. On both 
these occasions a high southern latitude was attained, and 
on the latter the Antarctic Continent within this area 
was discovered and named “ Coats Land,” after Mr. James 
Coats and Major Andrew Coats, in recognition of their 
public-spirited liberality towards the expedition. During 
these voyages birds received much attention, and specimens 
were collected whenever opportunity afforded, chiefly while 
the ‘Scotia’ was engaged in taking soundings, or while 
trawling operations were in progress for the capture of 
deep-sea organisms. As no landing was effected on terra 
firma, the birds were observed or obtained either amid the 
* For Part I. “The Birds of Gough Island,’ see ‘The Ibis,’ 1905, 
pp. 247-268, pl. vi.; Part IT. “ The Birds of the South Orkney Islands,” 
op. cit, 1906, pp. 146-187, pls. iii.—xiii. 
+ See List of Works consulted on p, 350. 
