342 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke on the 
of the Sandwich Archipelago. These were the only examples 
obtained during the Antarctic voyage of 1903. On the 
second voyage four (two males and two females) were cap- 
tured in the Weddell Sea, or its confines, on February 25th 
and 26th, 1904, in 64° 29’ (35° 29’ W.) and 65° 59’ S. 
(33° 06’ W.). 
This species does not appear to have come under the 
notice of other recent Antarctic explorers, but a species of 
Prion is recorded by Vanhoffen (¢. c.) as having occurred off 
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Land, or just without the Antarctic 
Circle, on March 18th, 1908, and one was also noticed 
between that part of the Antarctic Continent and Ker- 
guelen I., where P. desolatus is known to breed. 
The bill and feet of the specimens secured by the Scottish 
Expedition are described as being bluish grey, and the iris 
as brown. 
PH@BETRIA CoRNICoIDES Hutton. 
Phebetria fuliginosa Cat. Birds, xxv. p. 453 ; Chun, t. ¢. 
pp. 167, 220; Voy. of ‘ Scotia, pp. 181, 282. 
It is a matter for surprise that two such genuinely distinct 
species as P. cornicoides and P. fuliginosa should have col- 
lectively passed for a considerable number of years under 
the name of the Sooty Albatros. The ‘ Scotia’ collection 
of birds has already been the means of calling attention to 
the claims of Capt. Hutton’s so-called variety, described in 
1867, to full specificrank. Now there remains the important 
but at present almost impossible task of unravelling the 
tangled skein involved in defining the geographical distri- 
bution of the two species. Here the ‘ Scotia’ collections 
again lend a helping hand, for they enable me to say that 
all the birds obtained and seen in the far south belonged to 
Hutton’s species, and that it was only when the waters of 
the South Atlantic were approached that Gmelin’s fuliginosa 
appeared upon the scene. 
Specimens of both birds were collected, and the species 
under consideration was the only one obtained in the 
Antarctie Ocean, where it was observed as far south as 
69° 46’ S. lat. 
