O34 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 
the ship, probably on the look-out for scraps cast overboard 
from the galley. On February 7th, 1993, in lat. 60° 35'S. 
and long. 39° 44’ W., a great number were observed around 
a dead whale, picking up morsels of fat that fell from the 
bills of a host of Giant and Cape Petrels, which were regaling 
themselves to repletion on the blubber of the defunct 
leviathan. Onone occasion “a flock ” was observed resting 
on the water in 61° 22! (42° W.). 
The ‘ Belgica’ obtained it in the pack in 70° S. (87° W.) ; 
the ‘ Southern Cross’ found it breeding on Victoria Land ; 
and Dr. Wilson saw it off the Great Ice Barrier in 78° S., 
some seventy miles from the nearest open water (Voy. of 
the * Discovery,’ 11. pp. 482-3). 
THALASSECA ANTARCTICA (Gm.). 
Thalassewca antarctica Cat. Birds, xxv. p. 392. 
The Antarctic Petrel was first encountered by the Ex- 
pedition on February 17th, 1903, in latitude 64° 18! S. 
(28° 09' W.). Afterwards it was much in evidence in the 
vicinity of and amidst the great polar ice-fields. During 
the first voyage this bird was seen almost daily, sometimes 
in flocks, its latitudinal range varying from 62° to 70° S., 
and its longitudinal from 16° to 44° W. 
It was equally frequent during the second voyage, in 1904, 
and often followed the ship all day. When off Coats Land 
in 74° 1' S. no less than twenty were shot on March 14th, 
while the ‘ Scotia’ was locked in the pack. Just previously 
to this, namely on March 5th, when in 72° 31’ S., thousands 
of this species were seen in company with McCormick’s 
Skuas, Giant and Snowy Petrels, and Arctic Terns. On the 
northward voyage it was not observed beyond 68° 26’ S. 
GOZO) e 
As already recorded (‘ Ibis,’ 1906, p. 169), a few came under 
notice at Laurie Island in the summer of 1903-4, and it was 
thought not unlikely that the bird was nesting there. A 
number were also seen near Saddle Island, anvther of the 
South Orkney Group, on March 22nd, 1903, in about 60°S., 
the most northerly point at which this species was observed 
