152 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Petrels seen on the Voyage to Montevideo.— T forward a note of the 

 Petrels seen hy me during the voyage out to the River Plate. I have no 

 books to refer to here, and a visit to the Museum at Buenos Ayres (where 

 there is a good and well-arranged collection of birds) did not help me much, 

 so I should be very glad to have the identity of some of the species deter- 

 mined if possible. Sept. 4. — Entered Bay of Biscay at 4 a.m.; a dozen 

 Storm Petrels following us all the forenoon. Sept. 5. — Bowling along 

 merrily before the Portuguese trade-wind ; off Cape Finisterre about noon. 

 Among the Petrels was a Fork-tailed one. Some brown Shearwaters, 

 Puffinus kuhli. Sept. 6.-38° 48' N., 12° 29' W. ; at noon. At least a 

 hundred Storm Petrels followed all day. A small Shearwater, nearly black, 

 top of head quite so, and under parts pure white; very swift flight (? P. 

 obscums). Sept. 7. — At noon; 34° 43' N., 15° W. Some Storm Petrels 

 seen, but fewer than on previous day. Sept. 13, — At noon ; 14° 47' N., 

 26° 14' W. In the morning, when about 80 miles south by a little west 

 of Brava, one of the Cape St. Verde group, saw several times a small 

 black Shearwater with pure white under parts. Sept. 18. — At noon ; 

 5° 33' S., 32° 10' W. An Albatross, Diomedia melanophrys, I think, came 

 round the ship in afternoon. When at the quarantine station in Albrahao Bay, 

 Ilha Grande 24th and 25th Sept., T saw two or three Frigate Birds, and 

 there was always a little flock of them over the fish-market during the two 

 days we were at Rio de Janeiro. Sept. 28. — At noon ; 23° 37' S., 

 43° 47' W. Four Wilson's Petrels were following us in the afternoon. 

 Sept. 30.— At noon ; 30° 51' S., 49° 5' W. Off the coast of Rio Grande, 

 in the seas of the Petrels. Two Cape Pigeons Daption capensis, and a 

 great many dark sooty-brown Shearwaters, considerably larger than Cape 

 Pigeons [?P.fuliginosus). There was another species, intermediate in size, 

 brown, with under parts below the chest white, and another rather larger 

 than the sooty-brown ones ; wings and small saddle-patch black ; rest of 

 plumage white. Several Wilson's Petrels, and one about the size- of the 

 last named, but with belly white. What could this have been ? Some 

 Albatrosses, D. melanophrys? on the wing, and resting on the sea. Alto- 

 gether a wonderful collection. Oct. 1.— At noon ; 34° 12' S., 52° 54' W. 

 Off the coast of the Banda Oriental, and in sight of land in the afternoon. 

 Cape Pigeons were seen in the morning. The big Sooty Petrels (or Shear- 

 waters) followed us all the afternoon, and not far from land, which we were 

 able to approach closely in consequence of the weather being very fine and 

 c l ear> — 0. V. Aplin (Estancia Santa Elena, Monzon, Dept. de Soriano- 

 Uruguay, Feb. 9). 



Ruddy Sheldrake in Norfolk. — Col. Feilden informs me that the 

 supposed Ruddy Shelducks at Holkham (Zool. 1892, p. 395) were certainly 

 some other birds. There is no doubt, however, about the Snettisham 

 Ruddy Shelduck, which shows two incipient black tips where the collar 



