MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



S. Lat., while Captain Hutton says that it seldom penetrates northward beyond 

 30° S. Lat. 



Dr. E. A. Wilson states that on the voyage of the " Discovery " the first 

 Wandering Albatros, a young bird in brown plumage, was seen on the 18th of 

 September, 1901, in Lat. 31° S., Long. 22° W. Several birds, mostly immature, 

 were noticed from the 19th to the 23rd of the same month, and others up to the 

 3rd of October. From the 17th of October, two days out from Simon's Bay, 

 and thenceforth until the end of November, adult and immature birds followed 

 the ship till it reached the edge of the Ice Pack. After leaving New Zealand many 

 more of these Albatroses were observed, both young and old birds being plentiful 

 during the southern journey, until the 2nd of January, when the ice was sighted. 

 D. exulans disappeared when the ship entered the Ice Pack, and was not met with 

 further south than 65° S., although it has been recorded from off Ross's Great Ice 

 Barrier. On the return voyage of the " Discovery " to New Zealand, Mr. Wilson says 

 that, except D. exulans, every common form of Albatros was observed as soon as, or 

 even before, the ship left the immediate neighbourhood of the ice ; although D. exulans 

 had before been abundant in the same seas in December, very few indeed were 

 seen in March. 



Mr. Nikolai Hanson, the zoologist of the " Southern Cross " expedition, 

 frequently noticed the Wandering Albatros in the Cape Seas, and again on the voyage 

 to Tasmania. He also records it from Lat. 69° 13' S., when the ship had left 

 the Ice Pack for the open sea. 



Sir Walter Buller (Birds New Zeal., p. 291) says that this species is very 

 common in the seas round New Zealand, though he had never heard of its 

 breeding on any of the outlying rocks. Eggs from the Auckland Islands were 

 presented to the British Museum by Sir George Grey and Dr. R. McCormick, and 

 Captain Fairchild found both D. regia and D. exulans nesting there, but the 

 colonies occupied a distinct area, apart from one another. 



Captain Hutton states that the breeding season commenced on Antipodes 

 Island in the middle of January, and the species was found nesting on Adam 

 Island in the Auckland group in the first week of the same month. Birds were 

 obtained which still showed some dark brown feathers on the crown, and were 

 therefore not fully adult (Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 557). 



Dr. H. 0. Forbes (Ibis, 1893, p. 541) records the breeding of this species on 

 the Chatham Islands, the chief nesting-places being the rocky islets off Pitt's 

 and Wharekauri Islands, Pyramid Rock, the Sisters, and the Forty-fours. The 

 eggs and young are collected in thousands by the Maoris for purposes of food. 



D. exulans has been recorded on several occasions from South America. 

 Mr. Nicoll observed it in the neighbourhood of the islands of Martin Vas 

 during the cruise of Lord Crawford's yacht " Valhalla " (Ibis, 1906, p. 673), 



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