84 EDWARD A. WILSON. 
All were moulting, as one could see by the missing primaries of the wings. Several 
were caught on threads. They had been feeding on small fish and squids, the beaks of 
which formed part of the contents of their stomachs. On January 12th we lost them 
for a while, and saw no more till we found them in exceptionally large numbers 
at the extreme eastern edge of the Great Ice Barrier. Here in 8. lat. 76° 50’ and 
W. long. 158° we discovered King Edward VII.’s Land, and the unusual abundance of 
Thalasseca antarctica may mean that they breed somewhere in the locality. There 
was no spot in sight, however, that could possibly have suited them ; there were no 
rocky cliffs worth mentioning, and no land that was not buried in an undulating and 
almost unbroken sheet of snow and ice. Returning by this spot a few days later 
we were again surrounded by large numbers of the bird, but we lost them the next day 
entirely and as suddenly as we had before met with them on the same spot. They 
were not on passage, but were flying to and fro as though in the neighbourhood of 
their breeding place; more than this we cannot say. From that time onward for 
two full years in McMurdo Sound we did not see the bird, save once, when a single 
straggler passed the ship. 
On our homeward journey, however, in 1904, we fell in with them on February 
26th. We were then in pack ice, and on the 29th we saw large numbers and kept them 
with us as we passed between the Balleny Islands. They were not in flocks. Some 
were freshly moulted, but others had only just begun. One or two were caught on 
threads and landed. We finally saw the last of them on the day that we crossed the 
Antarctic Circle coming north. 
I have mentioned that between June 22nd and July 4th this bird was seen in 
considerable numbers every day in the South Pacitic Ocean. This throws some light 
upon their movements during the winter and extends their range. They are not 
so strictly ice birds as they were supposed to be, since they leave the ice for the open 
ocean in the winter months. We sawnone in the South Atlantic. Upon their breeding 
haunts we can throw no light. It is possible that Scott Island may repay a search in’ 
January or December, and further exploration of King Edward VII.’s Land may some 
day disclose their eggs and young. At present, however, these still remain unknown, 
and the nesting place a mystery. 
PRIOCELLA GLACIALOIDES. 
The Southern Fulmar. 
Procellaria glacialoides, Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves. (1840), pl. 51. 
Priocella glacialoides, Baird, Brewer and Ridgw., Water Birds N. Amer., ii. (1884), p. 375 ; Sharpe, Rep. 
‘Southern Cross’ Coll., 1902, p. 145, ibique citata; Hagle Clarke, Birds of 8. Orkney Ids., Ibis, 
Jan. 1906, p. 170. 
