Gough, Kerguelen, and South Georgia Islands. 449 



Also found, according to Mr. Comer, at South Georgia and Gough 

 Island. The only other note, except the general one quoted under 

 ^. lessoni, is the remark that, '* At sea they can be seen in large 

 flocks, sometimes thousands of them together." 



The egg measures 1'85 X 1'33 and is, in shape, a nearly perfect ellip- 

 soid. The texture is rather finely granular. The color, yellowish 

 white, much stained with dirty yellowish, probably from the soil. 



In addition to the above species of petrels, Mr. Comer speaks of 

 several kinds of " mother carey chickens " (probably Oceanites 

 oceanicus^ Procellaria nereis and some of the other species of small 

 petrels taken by the Transit Expeditions at Kerguelen), a bird called 

 by the sealers " paddy-unker," of which there is one egg in the col- 

 lection from Gough Island, and which he describes as a " dark bird 

 with white breast and white feet," and a bird called ''night hawk" 

 (which is probably Majaqueus cequinoctialis). 



The above mentioned egg of the " paddy-unker " has the strong 

 musky odor characteristic of the petrels. It measures 2*37 XI "64 and 

 is regularly ovate in shape. It has a fine texture and the shell is 

 smooth, showing only minute depressions under the lens. The color 

 is very pure white with some dirty yellowish, earthy stains. 



Family, Pelecanoidid^. 



12. Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gm.). Diving Petrel. "Diver." 



Procellaria urinatrix Gm., S. N., vol. i, 1788, p. 560. 



Pelecanoides urinatrix Lacep., Mem. de I'lnst., 1800, p. 517 ; Kidder and Coues, 

 Bull. Nat. Mus., p. 36; iid., op. cit.. No. 3, p. 17, 1877; Sharpe, Philos. Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, vol. 168, 1879, p. 114; Saunders, op. cit., p. 164; Salvin, P. Z. S., 1878, 

 p. 739 ; id., Voy. of Chal, vol. ii, p. 146. 



Four skins and two eggs from Kerguelen. 



See notes under ^strelata lesso7ii. 



The two eggs measure r54xl'26 and 1-52X 1'23. The shell is thin, 

 friable, and rather smooth, but shows shallow depressions under the 

 lens. The shape, in one, is an almost perfect, but very broad, ellip- 

 soid ; the other is also very broad but tends somewhat to the ovate 

 form. The color is creamy white, much stained (by contact with 

 the earth ?), with dirty yellowish. 



Another egg from Gough Island, marked '^ supposed to be diver, " 

 measures 1-57 X 1*16, and is regularly ovate in shape, with the texture 

 and color like the others but much less stained. 



