562 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. [Aves. 



of these gulls was afforded at the Snares. I was fishing in a deep gulch, seated 

 on the rocks some 50 ft. or 60 ft. above the w?.ter, and as I hauled up the bait 

 for a fresh cast a party of mackerel-gulls attempted, while on the wing, to seize 

 the bait. They also picked up spare bait lying within arm's length, and in order to 

 ascertain the limit of their confidence I dropped food at successively closer range, 

 until finally they actually took it from my fingers, screaming at and jostling each 

 other in their attempts to secure the coveted morsel. 



These birds commonly associate with the shags {Phalacrocorax campbelli and 

 P. colensoi), and numbers of them are generally to be noticed among parties on land. 

 Mr. Marriner remarks that this species was fairly numerous at Perseverance Inlet 

 and Monument Harbour, Campbell Island. 



Hah. — New Zealand ; Stewart, Auckland, Campbell, and Chatham Islands. 



Order TUBINARES. 

 Fam. PROCELLARIIDAE. 

 Garrodia, Forbes, 1881. 

 Garrodia nereis, Gould. (Storm-petrel.) 



Thalassidroma nereis, Gould, P.Z.S., 1840, p. 178. 



The only opportunity of determining the species of storm-petrel which frequently 

 skimmed along the crests of the waves at short distances from the vessel occurred 

 at Disappointment Island. 



Passing through the belt of Ligusticum plants, dotted with sitting mollymawks, 

 a little bird darted out of a burrow at my feet, and, becoming entangled in one of 

 the plants, I secured it with my hand ; on examination it proves to be an example 

 of Garrodia. 



Dr. Godman* writes, " The Earl of Ranfurly found the species at the Auckland 

 Islands, where Captain Hutton asserts that it breeds (BuUer, ' Birds of New Zealand,' 

 SuppL, i, p. 98). It certainly does so on the Chatham Islands, as Mr. Travers 

 obtained young birds there (Buller, I.e.), and Dr. H. 0. Forbes procured the egg 

 (Ibis, 1893, p. 542)." 



Hab. — Southern Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, Chatham and Auckland 

 Islands. 



Pelagodroma, Reichenbach, 1852. 



Pelagodroma marina, Latham (White-faced storm-petrel.) 



Procellaria marina, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, p. 826. 



Of this species Dr. Godmanf writes, " In the Auckland Islands it was met with 

 by the Antarctic Expedition, and a specimen from Enderby Island, presented by 

 Mr. Oakley, is in the British Museum. Dr. H. 0. Forbes also obtained eggs in the 

 Chatham Islands." 



* Godman, Monog. Petrels, i, 1907, p. 50. 

 t Godman, he. cit.. p. 54. 



