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CEsTRELATA BREVIROSTRIS (Lesson). 
CEstrelata brevirostris Cat. Birds, xxv. p. 409. 
This species is new to the avifauna of the Antarctic Ocean, 
where it was discovered by the Scottish Expedition on 
March 20th, 1904, in 69° 83! S. and 15° 19’ W., during the 
northward voyage from Coats Land towards Gough Island. 
On that day, while the ‘ Scotia’ was engaged in trawling 
for the capture of various forms of marine life, Dr. Pirie left 
the ship in a boat for the purpose of obtaining specimens of 
birds, a quantity of which, including Terns and various species 
of Petrels, were in the vicinity. While thus employed he 
came across numbers of a Petrel that he had not seen 
before, and succeeded in shooting a male, which on 
examination I found to belong to this species. Afterwards 
this ‘ New Petrel,’ as it was logged, was observed on five 
different days down to March 25th, when it was last seen in 
65° 58'S. and 11° 24/ W. 
The habitat of this interesting addition to the fauna of 
the South Polar Seas has hitherto been supposed to be 
confined, according to Salvin (op. cit. p. 410), to the South 
Atlantic and South Indian Oceans, and he mentions 
specimens as being in the British Museum Collection from 
Kerguelen [where it breeds] and Tristan d’Acunha. 
Vanhoffen (¢. c. pp. 506 & 508) records it as seen so far 
south as 59° during the voyage of the ‘Gauss’ from 
Kerguelen towards Kaiser Wilhelm IJ. Land; and on the 
return voyage northwards from that part of the Antarctic 
Continent it was again met with 200 nautical miles south of 
Heard Island, or in about 57° S. 
The feet of the specimen obtained by Dr. Pirie are, 
according to a coloured drawing made at the time of its 
capture, purplish grey and the claws black; while the 
iris is dark brown and the pupil blue-black. 
OsSIFRAGA GIGANTEA (Gm.). 
Ossifraga gigantea Cat. Birds, xxv. p. 422. 
The Giant Petrel was seen everywhere and almost daily 
during the Antarctic voyages of the ‘Scotia,’ even in the 
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