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rocks, or cracks in the mountain side, and lays but 
one egg. 
The brown-backed petrel, with white borders on 
the wings, was 
also evidently 
nesting on Vic- 
toria Pandi 
However, we 
never found it 
in its. nest 
When we first 
approached Cape 
Adare, dense 
flocks of them 
FOUND IN SHALLOW WATER. sailed about in 
the gaes Dur- 
ing the summer we saw few of them, but in the 
autumn they again sailed about in the air at 
great heights, while during the gales they swept 
low over the peninsula like a cloud. Although 1 
never found them on Geikie Land, I believe that 
they have their nests in that vicinity. 
The Gigantic Petrels also visited Camp Ridley. 
They were very scarce during the summer, but we 
saw several of them during the autumn. We did 
not find one of their nests, and their visits to the 
peninsula were always short and interrupted ; and, 
to a great extent, I ascribe their visits to Robertson 
Bay and our peninsula to strong gales at sea, which 
drove them in towards shore for shelter. In fact, 
during the strongest gale we had in the autumn, 
they arrived at Camp Ridley the day before the 
gale commenced, and left immediately after it was 
