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been obtained, but they are not noticed, nor are they known to occur 

 in Table Bay. 



7. Fregetta melanogastra (Gould). 

 Thalassidroma melanogastra, Gould, B. Austr. Tii. pi. 62. 

 Nos. 86, 88, males. Oct. 15, lat. 36° 57' S., long. 40° 41' E. 

 No. 91, female. Oct. 19, lat. 32° 36' S., long. 52° 58' E. 



8. Oceanites oCEANicus (Kuhl). Wilson's Petrel. 

 Thalassidroma wilsonii, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 65. 

 No. 64. Sept. 22, lat. 35° 29' S., long. 9° 46' E. 



No. 90. Oct. 19, lat. 32° 36', long. 52° 58' E. Female. 

 Both these specimens have the vent and tinder tail-coverts black, 

 and not white, as coloured in Gould's ' Birds of Australia.' 



9. Adamastor cineretjs (Gm.). "Whale-bird." 



Procellaria hastata, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 47. 



Nos. 60 (female), 61, 62. Sept. 21, lat. 35° 20' S., long. 9° 43' E. 

 In one specimen the black and yellow colours of the bill are more 

 strongly marked than in the other two. 



10. Majaqueus ^auiNOCTiALis (Linn.). 

 Procellaria conspicillata, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 46. 

 No. 56. Sept. 19, lat. 34° 39' S., long. 8° 51' E. 

 No. 93. Oct. 20, lat. 32° S. 



No. 97, male. Oct. 24, lat. 29° 45' S. 



The variations iu these specimens are rather peculiar. In all the 

 prevailing colour is sooty black ; but in the first there is a white patch 

 of about f inch in length under lower mandible, and an irregular 

 white streak on the left side, below the line of the gape, but none on 

 the right side ; the second has rather more white on throat ; and in 

 the third, the white extends as far back as a liae from the eyes. 



11. (Estrelata MOLLIS (Gould). 



Procellaria mollis, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 50. 



No. 41. Island of Trinidad, Aug. 21. " Knocked down with a 

 stick on island." 



12. ffisTRELATA PHiLippi, G. R. Gray. 



No. 80. Oct. 10, lat. 37° 59' S., long. 29° 18' E. 



13. Daption capensis (Linn.). " Cape Pigeon." 



Daption capensis, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 53. 



Nos. 46, 46a, 48. Aug. 27 onwards, the first being observed on 

 Aug. 26, in lat. 23° 30' S. ; temperature of air 65°, water 67°. 

 " Sept. 19, many thousands of these and ' Ice-birds ' flying round ; 

 they seemed to extend in undiminished numbers to the horizon." 



