KUNOL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND. 40. NIO 5. 83 



Priocelia glacialoides (Smith) i 840. 



Syn.: Fulmarus antarcticus Stephens 1826 (nec Gmelin). 



ProceUaria tenuirostris Audubon 1839 (nec Temminck). 



» glacialioides Smith 1840. 



Priocelia garnoti Hombron & Jaquinot 1844. 

 Thalassoeca glacialioides Bonaparte 1855. 



($ (skin) off the coast of Brazil the 22d of Oct. 1904. »Iris dark brown.») 



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K. A. Andersson (8) mentions this bird among those observed by him at 

 South Georgia 1902, but it is not recorded by the German expedition 1882—83. It 

 was seen by Sörling several times off the coast and once in Cumberland Bay. In 

 the middle of Sept. a specimen was shot in Boiler Harbour, but löst among the 

 drifting ice. It is not probable that it breeds on South Georgia as it was mostly, 

 observed dur ing the winter. 



K. A. Andersson (8) found it breeding on the high and unaccessible rocks of 

 Cape Roquemaurel, Louis Philippe land, and he has described its breeding habits. 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) 1820. 



Syn. : ProceUaria oceanica Kuhl 1820. 



» wilsoni Bonaparte 1823. 



Oceanites » Keyserling & Blasius 1840. 



2 ^J 1 Boiler Harbour, Cumberland Bay, 1.4 th of Dec. 1904. »Iris dark brown.» 

 2 (skeletons) the same locality, the 13th of Febr. 1905. 



There is a remarkable difference in size between these two individuals as the 

 length of the wing is in one 146 mm, in the other only 138 mm. The measurement 

 recorded by Salvin in Cat. Birds B. M. (Vol. XXV p. 360) is a good deal larger 

 than this, viz. 6,1 i., or about 155 mm. A specimen in this museum labeled »Atlantic 

 Ocean» has the length of wing 152 mm. and another, from »lat. 19 Atl. Oc. », 149 

 mm. It is thus evident that a great variation takes place, and it might be that 

 the birds inhabiting South Georgia are constantly smaller than those of other loca- 

 lities, although a greater materia] is needed to prove this, and all intermediate stages 

 of length of wing from 138 to 155 seem to be found. 



This Storm-petrel was not observed at South Georgia by the German Expedition 

 1882 — 83 (1). The Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1902 observed specimens of this 

 kind at South Georgia, but the only place where its nest was observed was in Bay 

 of Hope, Louis Philippe land. 



Mr. Sörling saw great numbers of this Storm-petrel at South Georgia practi- 

 cally every day during the summer. In the end of Alarch they disappeared and 



