Birds of Kerguelen Island . 2i 
faint yellow; webs bright yellow; toes faint black; nails 
black. The parents sit with the young during the night. 
We found this species numerous in all the five harbours 
visited by our brig. 
Cymodroma melanogaster (Gould) ; Salvin, Cat. B. xxv. 
p. 364. 
I was not able to find the nesting-place of this Petrel, but 
it was somewhere at the north-west end of Royal Sound, 
and our ship lay at the opposite corner while in this harbour. 
The bird was seen at both ends of the island, but not in the 
same numbers as the vellow-webbed Wilson's Petrel. 
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Majaqueus .equinoctialis (Linn.) ; Salvin, Cat. B. xxv. 
p. 395. 
Our first sight of the Spectacled or White-chinned Petrel 
was 280 miles due north of Kerguelen island. 
On Murray Island, in Royal Sound, while watching Teal, I 
saw an example of this Petrel pass and repass several times 
a small waterfall, and, to my astonishment, it finally settled 
down in the shallow water and waded under the ledge of the 
bank. A little digging in this thoroughly sodden ground 
brought me to the nest, and I soon found out that a White- 
chinned Petrel bites severely. The male bird takes part in 
the incubation in the daytime, but also leaves the egg to 
itself for a considerable time while in the early stage of 
development; and this I observed also in Greenland Harbour. 
Besides cephalopods, the food of the birds seems to be 
kelp, which I noticed on opening one specimen. Gould 
remarks that the yellow markings on the bill of this Petrel 
are particularly defined in Australian specimens. I observed 
that one of our Kerguelen birds had yellowish-blue horn- 
colour predominating over most of the bill, with a ridge of 
black along the lower mandible, and one-third of the upper 
mandible from the nostril was also black. 
There is a peculiarity in the breeding of the bird. Of 
eleven nests found only one was in dry ground; the others 
were in hill-sides, down which snow-water ran at all seasons 
of the year. The earth was simply saturated with water. 
