72 E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRIBTTTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



On the way back and forth they were not observed further north than to about 

 42° S. lat. 



In Roy al Bay the German Expedition 1882 — 83 found the Sooty Albatross 

 nesting. von den Steinbn (12) describes the nests as »niedrige, abgestumpfte Erd- 

 kegel; die Wandung ist lehniig glatt, die flache obere Aushöhlung mit einigen Hal- 

 men gefiittert, das Gräs ringsum abgebissen. » Old nests seemed to be used över 

 again. The height of a fine nest was measured to be about 22 cm., and its largest 

 diameter about 40 cm. The It of Nov. an egg was laid. Hall (13) measured a 

 nest of Ph. fuliginosa (not cornicoides), on Kerguelen land and it had nearly the 

 same diameter but was only about 4 cm. high. The situation of the nests was as 

 well in Royal Bay as on Kerguelen land under ledges of rocks. 



Phoebetria cornicoides was observed by the Scottish Expedition (21) to extend 

 its wanderings »almost to Saddle I.» of the South Orkneys. 



Thalassogeron culminatus (Gould) 1844. 



Syn.: Diomedea cidminata Gould 1844. 



Thalassogeron culminatus Baird 1884. 



(1 skeleton of a bird canght on the way between South Georgia and Bnenos Aires, the 7th of 

 Nov. 1904.) 



This bird is about as numerous as the foregoing but only on the open sea off 

 the coast and it never puts in appearance in the fjords. It was not observed at 

 South Georgia by the German Expedition 1882 — 83 nor by the Swedish Expedition 

 1902. By the Scottish Expedition it was seen »to within sixty miles of the South 

 Orkneys» (21). 



When returning from South Georgia Sörling saw at some distance from the 

 island »a black billed albatross, black above and white beneath with white head 

 and of about the size of a Thalassogeron culminatus.* It conld not be caught be- 

 cause it was defeated by the other Albatrosses and driven from the bait. Sörling 

 could not identify this bird. 



Diomedea melanoplirys Boie 1828. 



(1 skeleton of a bird caught off t lie coast of Brazii, the 23 of Oct. 1904.) 



This species was collected and observed at South Georgia as well by the Ger- 

 man Expedition 1882—83 (1) as by the Swedish Expedition 1902 (8, 9). 



Only once Sörling saw this species soaring över Boiler Harbour otherwise it 

 kept itself över the open sea, where it was common, but not very numerous. 



Hall (13) found a large rookery of this species on Kerguelen Land. 



