338 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 
highest latitudes reached during each year’s cruise, namely 
70° and 74° S.; and yet its breeding-grounds are all, so 
far as we know them, to be found north of the Antarctic 
Circle. 
Perhaps some of these Petrels which frequent the far 
south in late summer and autumn may be either non- 
breeding or immature birds which have spent the summer 
there ; while others may proceed south at the close of the 
nesting-season, as may also young birds. These are points 
which at present do not admit of satisfactory solution. 
Off Coats Land, in 74° 1’ S. and 22° W., from the 9th to 
the 13th of March, 1904, when the ‘ Scotia’ was fast in the 
grip of the pack, a number of these birds were seen, as 
were also many of McCormick’s Skuas, Antarctic and Snowy 
Petrels, and Arctic Terns. White examples are only alluded 
to in the Zoological Log during these voyages as being 
seen on four occasions, all north of 61° S. 
As regards the food of this bird as a marine species, a great 
host of individuals, including white examples, were feeding 
on the carcass of a dead whale in 60° 03’ S. (89° 44” W.) on 
February 7th, 1903, and the stomach of one shot contained 
crustaceans. 
Darton CAPENsIs (Linn.). 
Daption capensis Cat. Birds, xxv. p. 428. 
The “ Cape Pigeon ” was one of the most abundant species 
observed by the expedition during its two Antarctic voyages. 
It was seen almost everywhere, both at sea and amid the ice, 
as far south as 71° 50’, though it was only found in small 
numbers in the high latitude mentioned. 
The presence of this (with other Petrels) in great numbers 
im the Weddell Sea, far to the south of its breeding-haunts, 
in the late summer and in autumn, has already been alluded 
to (p. 829), and a possible explanation of its remarkable 
icursions amid the south polar ice, ere it moves northward 
to reach its accustomed oceanic winter-quarters, has been 
offered. 
All the specimens obtained in the Antarctic Ocean during 
