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Birds 0 / Kerguelen Island. 
rights, and snapped its bill in the manner of the adult, but 
feebly. A Cormorants fresh egg, partly broken, was near, 
so the little gallant lived well in the start of its career, and 
disgorged enough food in a mass to give a meal to half a 
dozen ordinary birds. The general hue of the nestling was 
slate-colour; the bill slate-black; legs bluish; iris faint 
hazel, and pupil blue. The ring of white had begun to 
show round the eye. The nests were neat, saucer-like, and 
of fine fibrous loam, caked. The dimensions were :—breadth 
17 inches, diameter of cavity 12 inches, depth of cavity 
3 inches, depth of structure about 4 inches. 
These observations were made on January 5th. I was not 
able to recognize Prof. Hutton^s subspecies P. /. cornicoides 
(Ibis, 1867, p. 186) in these sitting birds, although, later on, 
I observed some on the wing that appeared to be greyer 
on the back and abdomen. At sea, some 300 miles east 
of Kerguelen, I noticed (February 20th) many specimens 
with the nape of the neck white, and I think these were 
immature birds. 
4~0ceanites oceanicus (Kuhl); Salvin, Cat. B. xxv. p. 358. 
The yellow-webbed Wilson^s Petrel is a delicate creature 
that goes straight to sea in the early morning, and comes 
back to the rocks in the gloaming. Most of my time was 
spent among the stones below 1000 feet, where this Petrel is 
to be found in great numbers by diligent search. At 1500 feet 
(Thumb Peak) one flew from the boulders in the daytime, 
which showed that a nest was there. Having returned from 
the sea into the harbours at dusk (8 p.m.), Wilsom’s Petrel 
is then to be seen, flying to and fro before a ridge of rough¬ 
looking rocks. At 6 p.m. I observed (February 2nd) a 
gathering of from 50 to 60 birds off the South Head of 
Greenland Harbour. Generally they are unassociated until 
they come in towards night. They are seldom to be seen 
on land in the daytime, and I only once noticed a bird flying 
up and down a part of a valley of stones, more than a mile 
from the sea, and a creek, which led from this highland, had 
encouraged the bird to go there. It reminded me of a Martin 
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