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Parkinson kept a journal* himself, which was published by his brother, 

 Stansfielcl Parkinson, who obtained, after no little difficulty at the hands of 

 Sir Joseph Banks, a copy of his brother's MS. The details of the controversy 

 are given at length in the Preface to Parkinson's ' Journal ;* but they have 

 no bearing upon my present subject. 



All the drawings of Petrels were made during the voyage out, — the first 

 on the 22nd of December, 1768, in lat. 39" 37' S., when the ' Endeavour' was 

 off the coast of South America, on her way from Rio Janeiro, which she left 

 on the 9th of December, to Cape Horn, which she reached early in January ; 

 the last were taken on the 15th of February, 1769, in lat. 48° 27' S., 

 long. 93° W., some way out in the South Pacific Ocean, off the extreme 

 south of South America, opposite a point between the Chonos archipelago 

 and Tierra del Fuego. 



In rounding Cape Horn the ' Endeavour ' proceeded as far south as 

 beyond the 60th degree of S. latitude ; and here several drawings were 

 taken. 



It will be seen, then, that all the birds depicted in this voyage frequent 

 the seas surrounding the southern extremity of the South-American continent. 

 No drawings were taken during the subsequent part of the voyage, when the 

 expedition visited the Society Islands, New Zealand, and the coast of 

 Australia. 



The notes on Petrels in Parkinson's ' Journal ' are very meagre ; and no 

 mention is made of drawings having been executed on any particular dates. 

 The drawings of the Petrels themselves are little more than outlines, most of 

 them only in pencil, a few being coloured in one tint, evidently to show the 

 distribution rather than the actual tint of the plumage. 



* A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship ' The Endeavour.' 

 Faithfully transcribed from the Papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Joseph Banks^ 

 Esq., on his late Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World. Embellished with views and 

 designs delineated by the Author and engraved by capital Artists. London : 1773. 4to. 



