KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 40. N:0 5. 85 



Fregetta melanogaster (Gotjld) 1844. 



Syn.: Thalassidroma melanogaster Gould 1844. 

 » tropica Gould 1844. 



Fregetta melanogaster Bonaparte 185(i. 

 Cymodro»ia melanogaster Ridgway 1887. 



Pagenstecher (1) recordecl this Storm-petrel as breeding on South Georgia 

 on the basis of the collections of the German Expedition 1882 — 83. 



Mr. Sörling did not observe or colleet any specimens of this kind in Cumber- 

 land Bay nor anywhere else. It might, however, be possible that this Storni-petrel 

 breeds in Royal Bay where it was recorded as found by the German Expedition, and 

 where Von den Steinen (12) also found an egg, said to belong to it, under a rock. 



It has been doubted (6) whether the Storm-petrel, regarded by Pagenstecher, 

 (7) and von den Steinen (12) as belonging to this species, really had been correctly 

 named and to make sure about this I wrote to Director Kraepelin and asked for 

 information. His kind reply contained, however, a corroboration as he wrote that 

 the specimen in the Hamburg Museum of Natural History »ist in der Tat Cymodroma 

 mel an ogast ra (nach den Proportionen der Phalangen und der Färbung) und nicht 

 Oceanites oceanicus». 



The Scottish Expedition found it breeding on the South Orkney Islands (21). 



Eudyytes chrysolophus Brandt and 

 E. »diacleinatus Gould» 



have been reported by the German Expedition in single straying individuals 

 [Pagenstecher (1)]. 



von den Steinen (12) writes about a third kind that should have been 

 caught and kept alive for some time but finally escaped. It should have been very 

 small »höchstens 30 Centimeter» (12). As no representative of this genus is by far 

 so small this is very mysterious. It might be guessed åt E. chrysocome, but this 

 is very much bigger than the measurement recorded by the author quoted. 



On the way back from South Georgia Sörling saw a crested penguin which 

 appeared to him to be a specimen of E. chrysocome. This was in the open sea far 

 from the island. In the immediate neighbourhood of South Georgia no crested 

 penguin was ever seen and the crew of the whaling steamer never reported that 

 they had seen any on their whaling trips. 



