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Mr Sörling föund Pagodroma rathef numerous out on the sea, and it visited 

 the Bay now and then, especiälly whén the drifting ice set in. It did not attack 

 the carcasses of whales at the establishment. but picked smaller pieces of blubber, 

 and other floating refuse. In the Bay it only appeared during the winter from the 

 first part of July. 



When sitting on the drifting ice it always rested on the tarsi and coulrl not 

 si t, or wälk on straight legs. 



Pagodroma is circumpolar. K. A. Andersson (8) found it breeding on the 

 Uruguay-, Cockburn- and Lockyer-Islands etc,, the Scottish Expedition (21) on the 

 South Orkney Islands, the »Southern Ooss» Expedition (6) on Cape Adare, Son t!) 

 Victoria Land, and Vanhöffen (16) on Mount Gauss (Kaiser Wilhelm II Land). 



Majncpiciis apquinoctialis (Linné) 1758. 



Syn.: Procellaria cequinoctialis Linné 1758. 



Puffinus » Stephens 1826. 



Majaqueus » Bonaparte 1856. 



2 (skeleton) cangbt in the nest, about 1 ni. long bnrrow imder soine grass tufts, at the foot of Mount 

 Duse, Boiler Harbour, Camberland Bay 17th of Nov. 1904. 

 2 eggs the same locality, the 4th of Deo. 1904. 

 1 egg » » » » » » » » 



Length 82 x Breadth 50 mm.) 



g 9 i- 1- t These eggs were found in the same nest. 



' 82 x » 56 » single egg. 



The eggs are white but stained brownish as they lay on the bare ground 

 without any bedding. The eggs were found at the end of a bnrrow which extended 

 about 1 m. or more into the ground. Some burrows were so long that it was found 

 too difficult to dig them out. The earth was frozen as well round as below the nest, 

 which only consisted of a small hollow, in which the warmth of the sitting birds 

 had somewhat thawed up the earth and melted the frost to water so that the eggs 

 lay parti} 7 in water in a mud-puddle. Both birds were found in the nest. and were 

 verv soiled by the thawed up dirt. 



Like Hall (13) and others, Sörling made the experience that Majaqueus can 

 bite severely but also use its very sharp-pointed claws with great dexterity. As a 

 rule only one egg was found in each of 6 opened nests with the single exception 

 quoted above. 



The German expedition 1882 — 83 found also Majaqueus breeding on South 

 Georgia. The first birds appeared, according to observations 1882, in the middle of 

 Oct. (12), and at the end of Nov. (/) or beginning of Dec. (12) the first eggs were 

 found. In the beginning of May the 3 7 oung were able to fly. 



On his way south in the middle of November Sörltng saw single specimens 

 of Majaqueus north of South Georgia almost every day. The 18th of Nov. birds 



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