230 THE ANTARCTIC MANUAL. 
77° 49'8,,in long. 181°10' E. It seems to occur along the ice-barrier, 
but I cannot find any definite account of its breeding-places. This 
species, which seems to be the ‘aglet, or ‘eaglet,’ of Weddell and 
early explorers, has the upper surface brown, and has 12 tail feathers; 
whereas its near ally, the Stnver-GREY PsrreL (7. glacialoides), has 
14 tail-feathers, and has consequently been placed by some authori- 
ties in another genus, Priocella. This latter species has a pale-grey 
upper surface and other distinctive characters, described in the Ap- 
pendix. It reaches the ice-barrier, and a specimen was obtained by 
the Belgica just before her escape from the pack-ice, on 14th March 
1899, in lat. 70° 40’ S. and long. 102° W.; while the Challenger 
brought back one example, taken on the edge of the pack, in about 
66° S., on 14th February 1874. The range of this species extends 
along the Pacific coast of America, occasionally as far north as 
Washington Territory, and also to the Cape seas; while Kerguelen 
Island seems to be a breeding-place, although I am not aware of 
any authenticated eggs. 
The well-known Cape PETREL, or ‘Cape Pigeon’ (Daption capensis) 
is another of the medium-sized species which has hitherto succeeded 
in concealing its egg from the gaze of naturalists, although the bird 
has been found in burrows with its young on Kerguelen, and there 
can be no doubt that it breeds on South Georgia, as well as other 
suitable localities in the Antarctic regions. It occurs throughout 
the Southern seas, and has even been obtained on one occasion off 
Ceylon. At long intervals individuals have been taken in the North 
Atlantic, from the United States to the British Islands; but among 
the numerous birds captured at sea many are known to have been 
carried hundreds of miles before their eventual liberation, and this 
may account for occurrences so far beyond the usual limits. 
No true Albatros has been obtained within the Antarctic circle, 
and very few species reach 60° S.; in fact Moseley remarks that the 
last White Albatros (Diomedca exulans) left when the Challenger 
was still 200 miles to the north of the pack.* The Sooty Albatros 
(Phebetria fuliginosa) was, however, obtained by the Challenger on 
10th February 1874, at the edge of the pack-ice.t But the GIANT 
* It is true that in an abstract of Balleny’s voyage (Journ. R.G.S. 1839, p. 517) the 
explorer is quoted as remarking upon ‘one Albatros’ in lat. 61° 30’ S., ‘the first since 
leaving Campbell Island,’ but this may easily have been a whitish Giant Petrel (p. 231). 
+ It was the shooting of an Albatros of this species, as narrated in Shelvocke’s 
‘Voyage Round the World,’ pp. 72-73 (1726), that supplied Coleridge with the ides 
elaborated in the ‘Ancient Mariner.’ Shelvocke says that after his vessel, the Speed- 
well, had passed the Straits of Le Maire and had reached 61° 30’ S., ‘ we had not bad 
the sight of one sea-bird, except a disconsolate black Albitross, who accompanied us for 
