Birds of the Weddell and adjacent Seas. 345; 
During the first Antarctic voyage, in 1903, this bird was no- 
ticed on eight occasions between February 14th and March 21st 
in latitudes varying from 59° 33/ to 69° 46’ S., and in longi- 
tudes from 20° 58’ to 27°32' W.; and on the second voyage, 
in 1904, it was logged for south of 60° on ten days between 
February 23rd and April 1st, in latitudes ranging from 60° 30/ 
to 67° S., and longitudes between 10° 42’ and 41° 55’ W. 
On February 25th, when in 64° 29'S, and 35° 29’ W., six 
individuals were sailing around the ‘Scotia’ at the same time. 
North of 60° it was encountered as far as Gough Island 
(40° 19’S.), as already related (‘ Ibis,’ 1905, pp. 267-268). 
Previously to the researches of the ‘Scotia’ Expedition, this 
Albatros had not been recorded within the Antarctic Circle, 
though Ross (¢.c. p. 359) observed a “ Sooty Albatros” in 
the Weddell Sea in 67° 06’ S. and 8° 35’ W. on March Ist, 
1843, which most probably was of this species. 
No specimen of P. fuliginosa was obtained or observed by 
the Expedition beyond 58° 8., though it is certain that this 
Albatros does attain to a higher degree of southern latitude. 
“Sooty Albatroses”? were frequently logged during the 
voyages of the ‘Scotia’ between the Falklands and the 
South Orkneys, and are believed to have been P. cornicoides, 
but no specimens were captured. 
Having made some incursions into the literature of Ant- 
arctic ornithology in the preparation of these papers, perhaps 
it may be well to allude to these researches so far as they 
concern P. cornicoides. 
Captain Hutton told me, in 1905, that this species is the 
common form in New Zealand, and that it breeds at the 
Auckland and Antipodes Islands at the end of October; and 
Loénnberg in his ‘Contributions to the Fauna of South 
Georgia,’ 1. p. 71 (1906), mentions it as breeding on cliffs 
at that island. 
Chun (¢. c. p. 167) informs us that during the voyage of 
the ‘ Valdivia,’ “ Diomedea fuliginosa, die aschgrauen Alba- 
trosse mit schwarzlichen Kopfe,” was met with about midway 
between the Cape of Good Hope and Bouvet Island on 
November 20th, 1898, and (p. 220) that the Smoke-grey 
