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caught before, it had also a white border on each side of the under- 
part of the beak; those caught before had all blue borders, This 
dark albatross had not yet started moulting. 
November 18th, 1898. 
Water, 49°; air, 47°; lat., 45° 45' S. ; long., 111° 3' E. Puffinus 
has left us, also the white-headed petrel. A flock of Diomedea 
melanophrys were lying on the sea. 
November 25th, 1898. 
Water, 53°; air, 49°; lat, 44° 32’ S.; long., 139. 6 Hc Dhe 
white-headed petrel has turned up again, and a new kind of black 
petrel has been seen, much resembling the black swallow in flight, 
but about twice the size of that bird. 
November 26th, 1898. 
Water, 522°; air, 52°; lat, 44° 3 S. ; long., 142° 55 E. A great 
many albatrosses have been seen. Diomedea exulans have been about 
in great numbers. 
November 27th, 1898. 
Water, 56°; air, 56°. We sighted land at 5 A.M. ‘The old birds, 
except the Diomedea exulans, have now left us, but some new species 
have put in an appearance, amongst them a large albatross with a 
white head, dark back and short tail. Then we have a Sula, very 
much like Suda bassana, but with a black tail. The southern black- 
backed Larus dominicanus, as also its small relation Xema jamesonit, 
has been seen all along the coast, and the “mutton” birds, so well 
known in Australia, were seen in hundreds. 
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ROCK SPECIMENS 
COLLECTED BY THE SOUTALRN CROSS 
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. . 
The collection consists mainly of specimens of basalt, and of 
a pale-green slate and quartz-grit, together with boulders of granite 
rocks. 
Of the basalts, most of the specimens are very vesicular and 
scoriaceous, but some are of compact basalt, showing in some cases 
