MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



British Museum is, however, believed to have been obtained there by the Antarctic 

 Expedition in 1844, and Mr. Robert Hall says that, although he collected no examples 

 on Kerguelen, (E. mollis was often observed following the brig (Ibis, 1900, p. 24). 

 Dr. Husker, on the voyage of the " Gazelle," procured a young female from the above- 

 mentioned island, and a female from Lat. 32° 11' S., Long. 59° 41' E., as well as 

 an adult male from Lat. 33° 26' S., Long. 79° 42' E. (J. /. 0., 1876, p. 329). 



Two specimens from Lat. 29° 45' S., Long. 15° 3' W., were captured by Gould. 

 They are the original types, and were obtained to the westward of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. The species has been recorded by Vanhoffen, during the voyage of the German 

 Deep-Sea Expedition, from Lat. 44° S., Long 12° E. (J. /. 0., 1901, p. 320), and Nikolai 

 Hanson obtained a specimen in Lat. 42° 23' S., Long. 20° 32' E., on October 24th, 

 1898 (Sharpe, Rep. Voy. " Southern Cross" p. 147, 1902). 



The Earl of Crawford met with it in Lat. 37° 59' S., Long. 29° 18' E. (Spec, g of 

 Salvin's Cat. Birds, XXV., p. 407), and Mr. T. Parkin in Lat. 39° 51' S., Long. 8° 49' 

 E. (Bull. B. O. C.,X., p. cvi.). 



The British Museum contains a specimen procured by Macgillivray in Lat. 34° 43' 

 S., Long. 4° 0' W., on February 24th. 



Hutton observed (E. mollis during a voyage from London to New Zealand in 

 1866, on April 5th, in Lat. 34° 11' S., Long. 22° 52' W., from which time it was common 

 every day until May 10th, in Lat. 40° 20' S., Long. 63° 30' E. It then disappeared until 

 May 17th, in Lat. 39° 38' S., Long. 85° 36' E., when one bird was seen for three days, 

 taking its final departure on May 20th in Lat. 42° 23' S., Long. 97° 40' E. It was 

 most numerous between Lat. 35° 40' S., Long. 4° 28' W., and Lat. 39° 30' S., Long. 

 25° E. (Ibis, 1867, p. 188). 



Professor Giglioli, on the " Magenta," mentions the species as having been seen on 

 February 25th, 1866, in the South Atlantic Ocean (Lat. 42° 47' S., Long. 3° 26' E.), 

 where it was abundant. It accompanied the ship from this date to March 20th 

 (Lat. 40° 42' S., Long. 53° 20' E.), and again during the passage from Batavia to 

 Melbourne till May 4th, when the entrance to Port Phillip was reached (Faun. Vertebr. 

 Oceano, p. 42). 



Buller says that there is a series of this species in the Auckland Museum from 

 Sunday Island, in the Kermadecs, two of the specimens being in a dark stage of plumage 

 (Birds New Zeal., Suppl., I., p. 112, 1905). I have, however, never seen an example 

 from these islands : the Rothschild Museum does not contain one, nor did the Earl 

 of Ranfurly send any to the British Museum. 



A large number of these Fulmars were observed off Gough Island by the Scottish 

 Antarctic Expedition, and Mr. Eagle Clarke writes (Ibis, 1905, p. 262) : — " This is 

 probably the ' Paddy Unker ' of Comer's visit, when one egg was procured (Verrill, 

 Tr. Conn. Acad., IX., p. 449)." 



Messrs. E. L. and L. C. Layard state that the birds, which may be heard calling 



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