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Mr. R. Hall on the 
best work was done at that time. The expedition of H.M.S. 
‘ Challenger 3 in the same year followed. Dr. Rowdier Sharpe 
(Phil. Trans, vol. clxviii.) has published a summary of the work 
in ornithology done up to 1879. 
We visited the whole eastern coast of ninety miles, except 
Christmas Harbour ; but with only seven weeks on land 
(from Dec. 28th, 1897, to Feb. 13th, 1898) to devote to the 
varied work of collecting and observing plants and animals, 
minute attention could be given only to Royal Sound and 
Greenland Harbour. 
With a favourable and warm season, 1 was able to collect 
skins of more birds than any one of the previous expeditions, 
and I added two to the list of 33 species given by Dr. Sharpe 
as found on the island. But, prior to reading this paper, it 
would be well to consult the reports of Dr. Kidder* and the 
Rev. E. C. Eatonf (“ Transit of Yenus •”), to which this 
paper is chiefly supplementary. It may be added that 
Mr. Sclater has referred in f The Ibis'’ to two or three of 
these species observed since 1879 in much higher latitudes. 
The nomenclature here adopted is chiefly that of the 
f Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum/ 
Phalacrocorax verrucosus (Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 393). 
My remarks on this Cormorant relate principally to five 
small rookeries, which were placed along one cliff a few 
hundred yards in extent. The birds were so tame that they 
walked up to and surrounded you, sometimes so closely that, 
when photographing a group, it was necessary to drive them 
back, in order that a good view might be obtained. One 
usually looks upon this family as “ handy ” with their 
bills, and, for myself, I keep out of range; but when 
my friend Mr. Evans J put his pocket-knife between the 
mandibles of one, the bird did not bite, and when he tried 
his fingers, at my wicked suggestion, even then no harm 
* Miscell. Coll. Smithsonian Institution, vol. xiii. (1877). 
t Phil. Trans, vol. clxviii. '(1879). 
X Subsequently in the South Polar Seas with the ‘ Southern Cross,’ as 
Naturalist. 
