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P. garnoti of Lesson as a synonym of /’. urinatrix; to which T 
still refrain from adding the P. berardi of Quoy and Gaimard.” 
Mr, R B. Sharpe however, holds a contrary opinion and in 
the “ Account of the Collections made in Kerguelen’s Land,”* * * § 
after giving the measurements of a number of the so-called species 
from different localities, writes “My conclusions differ from those 
of Dr. Cones, insomuch that I consider that /*. berardi is nothing 
hut the young of P. urinatrix, and that P, garnoti on the contrary 
must be held to be distinct on account of its very much larger 
size ; at all events the examples from Western South America 
indicate a distinct race.” Dr. Coppinger in the Cruise of the 
Alert,f records capturing a specimen of Pele.canoidcn urinatrix on 
the west coast of Patagonia. 
However obscured the synonymy of Pelecanoides urinatrix 
appears to be at present, it is interesting to know that its habits 
and mode of nidification are not, owing chiefly to the many 
scientific expeditions that have been sent to Kerguelen Island 
to make observations during the Transit of Venus. During the 
voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in 1874, Sir C. Wyville Thomson^ 
writo§: — “ It is to bo seen on the surface of the water in Royal 
Sound when the water is calm in very large flocks. On two days 
when excursions were made in the steaiu pinnace, the water was 
seen to be covered with these birds in Hocks, extending over acres, 
which were black with them.” 
Dr. Kidder, who accompanied the United States Transit of 
Venus Expedition sent to Kerguelen Islands in the same year, 
gives an account of their nesting habits, the eggs which he 
describes measure as follows : D62 x Dio: l - 62 x 127 : DtiG 
* Sharpe. “ Account of the collections made in Kerguelen’s Land and 
Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expeditions, in the years 1874-5, 
p. 110.” (1870)- ' 
•t Coppinger, Cruise of the Alert, pp, 105-106, (1883). 
I Thomson, Voy. H.M.S. Challenger, Narr. of the Cruise, Yol. I., part 
i., p. 359 (1885). 
§ Kidder and Cones, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mils. Nat Hist. No. 2. of Kerguelen 
Island, made in connection with the American Transit of Venus Expedi¬ 
tion, 1874-5, p. 38, (1875); id. part ii., pp. 17, 18 (1870). 
