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one or more individuals of Thalassogeron chlororhynchus, 

 Daption capensis, Haloheena cmrulea, and Fregetta graUnria. 



We caught many of the birds on fishhooks, hauling them 

 down from the air as animated kites, or, in the case of the 

 larger, heavier species, dragging them in along the surface of 

 the water. A Giant Petrel {Macronectes) was the first to fall 

 a victim, after which we captured specimens of Diumedea 

 exulans, Puffinus angloriim, Procellaria aequinocfialis, aud 

 Daption. The " Cape hens" [P. (Bquinoctialis) wei^e very- 

 aggressive, driving the Shearwaters and smaller Petrels 

 away from the trailing bait, diving beneath the surface 

 in their efforts to seize it, and even fighting w"ith the Alba- 

 trosses and Macronectes. Whenever the vessel paused in 

 her course for an instant, owing to the rolling seas, there 

 would be a tremendous hurly-burly of birds battling over 

 the treacherous bait. 



The photograph thoroughly demonstrates how clearly the 

 diagnostic characters of birds can be shown in even a brief 

 and distant glimpse. For except in the case of the bird I 

 have labelled Pufjinus anglorum, an ornithologist familiar 

 with living Tubinares could identify almost every bird in 

 the picture. Particularly characteristic are the poses of 

 Profinus (No, 7) and Phoebetria (No. 3), even though the 

 actual pictures are minute and scarcely more than sil- 

 houettes. The bhuTcd Macronectes, also, " standing on 

 end " and wheeling, has a certain stiffness and straightness 

 of wing which the field-studeut of Tubinares will recognize 

 at once as being peculiar to the species. 



XVII. — Obituary. 



Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton. 



It is with great regret that we have to record the sudden 

 death, by heart failure, of Major Barrett-Hamilton, M.B.O.U., 

 in South Georgia, in the Antarctic, on January the ITtli. 

 At the end of last year he had been commissioned by the 



