ORNITHOLOGY OF SECTION D, 1850. 
“ T was rather fortunate in procuring specimens of Procellaride, 
by dint of fishing, and going out in the jolly boat whenever there was 
an opportunity ; on one of these occasions the boat was capsized, and 
I lost a valuable gun; upon another, when in latitude 40° 45'S, 
and longitude 123° 26’ E., while the boats were trying for deep sea 
soundings, without reaching the bottom with 3500 fathoms, or 
nearly four miles of line, I reaped a rich harvest, having procured 
and skinned two specimens of Procellaria leucocephala, one of 
P. macroptera? two of Prion turtur, and one of P. banksii. 
“ Tn all, I obtained skins and skeletons of 







«“ DPiomedéa exulans. Procellaria leucocephala. 
eulminata. mollis. 
—  chlororhyncha. Pufinus cinereus. 
fuliginosa. Prion turtur. 
Procellaria equinoctialis. — banksii. 
atlantica. Thalassidroma leachit. 
glacialoides. leucogaster. 
macroptera ? nereis, 

“ Of these I am doubtful about Procellaria macropterd. I 
caught another example of this bird a day’s sail to the southward 
of Sydney, when a large flock kept in the ship’s wake for a whole 
morning, during blowing drizzly weather ; they eagerly pounced at 
and followed the bait; but as the ship was going eight knots, it 
was only by hooking one in the wing that I caught it. 
“The Thalassidroma nereis was seen every day during ow 
passage from Hobart Town to Sydney; when in latitude 384° S. many 
hovered around the ship, and I shot two from a boat. 
* Lestris catarrhactes. On various oceasions, and in different 
parts of the South Indian Ocean, and off the Cape of Good Hope; 
single, and once two individuals of this species were observed. 
have seen it following and hovering over a bait towing astern, and 
once saw it chase a Cape Petrel (Daption capensis), and force it t 
alight on the water, where it left it, This bird seldom remained 
with us for more than half an hour at a time, during which it made 
a few circular flights about the ship.” 
Here is another instance of a bird, hitherto supposed to be pe 
culiar to our own seas, crossing and enjoying a similar range on the 
other side of the line; I frequently saw it myself, and can affirm. 
that it resorts to the temperate seas of the latitude in which it wa 
observed by Mr, MGillivray, all round the globe. 
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