SI E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRIBUTIONS TU THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



had not returned in the beginning of October when Sörling left the island. This 

 agrees verv well with the observations of the Scottish Expedition (21) according to 

 which it appeared on the South Orkney Islands the llth or 12tli of Nov. and the 

 last disappeared tlie 23 of March. 



To Cumberland Bay they were probably attracted by the refuse from the 

 whale-factory. They did not attack pieces of blubber or such things, but collected the 

 dröps of o il and tiny pieces of refuse f loating on the surface of the water. 



The Great Skuas did not attack these Storm-petrels, if they were not shot, or 

 disabled by shot. 



Sörling did not find any nests of this species, but the males shot the 14th of 

 Dec. had symmetrical bare patches on either side of the lover surface evidently from 

 incubating. This proves that this Storm-petrel breeds on South Georgia, and that 

 the male sits on the egg as well. 



Its area of distribution is very wide and it probably breeds in suitable localities 

 all över the sub-antarctic and antarctic regions as its burrow has been found on 

 Louis Philippe Land, South Georgia, South Orkney Islands (21), Kerguelen (13 etc), 

 South Victoria Land (6, 14), Mount Gauss, Kaiser Wilhelm II Land (16) etc. 



Garrodia nereis (Gould) 1840. 



Syn.: Tlwdassidroma nereis Gould 1840. 

 Garrodia » Forbes 1881. 



1 J 1 Moraine-Fiord, Cumberland Bay, 27tli of November 1904. »Iris brown.» 

 Length of wing 130 mm. 



Mr. Sörling saw this bird fly up from a tussock hill and shot it, but failed 

 to find the nest, although he was convinced that it really was there. The correctness 

 of this conviction was afterwards proved when it was found that the bird had a 

 bare space on the belly from incubation. There is, however, another a distinct proof 

 that this Storm-petrel breeds on South Georgia as Sörling found at Boiler Harbour 

 the dried up remains of a not yet fullgrown young of this species which had the 

 quills only Vi developed. This happened at the end of Nov. 1904, so that this 

 young was from the previous breeding season. 



The German Expedition 1882 — 83 (1) found it also breeding in South Georgia. 

 Jn the neighbourhood of Cumberland Bay it must have been rare as Sörling did 

 not find any more specimens than those mentioned above, This Storm-petrel as 

 well has an extensive breeding range as its eggs have been found so far from South 

 Georgia as on Kerguelen Land (16) and the Chatham Islands. 



