154 Natural History of the Farallones. [ ZOE 
Fister Lecontet Mars. 
Saprinus lugens Er. 
Coniontis Eschscholtzii Mann. 
Eleodes consobrina Lec. 
I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Jas. E. Benedict, of the Na- 
tional Museum, for the identification of the following Crustacea: 
fleterograpsus nudus Dana. 
Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall. 
Lupagurus hirsutiusculus Dana. 
Ligia occidentalis Dana. 
Ldotea ? hirtipes Dana. 
Pollicipes polymerus Sowerby. 
_ Tetraclita porosa, var. Gmelin. 
The only batrachian of the islands has been previously recorded 
by Cope: 
Autodax lugubris. 
BIRDS. 
Leaving the fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco in the little one- 
masted boat of the Greek eggers early Sunday morning, July 3, we 
expected to arrive at the island early in the afternoon; but the fates 
decreed otherwise. We set sail with a high head-wind, and for a 
time birds were not to be thought of as we lay below deck in dark- 
ness, with an environment of choice odors evidently made on pur- ° 
pose to delight the heart (and stomach) of the novice at seamanshi p 
—a bloody liver dangling at our feet and pans of stale meat at our 
heads. This soon grew intolerable, and we insisted upon having 
the after hatch opened. Standing up and breathing the fresh sca 
air was better than being cooped up below, although the bucket-. 
fulls of water which were hurled into our faces every few minutes 
by those conspirators against our peace of mind, the wind and wave, 
might have been thought disagreeable by the over-fastidious. The 
fortunate possession of a rubber coat saved me from being com- 
pletely drenched, and with the exception of the seepage from an 
occasional injudicious shower of spray running down my neck, and 
a pair of wet shoes, I kept tolerably dry. The case was otherwise 
with my companion, however: he had no rubber coat, and was 
accordingly soon compelled to go below, drenched and disconsolate. 
The only bird noted in the bay and about the Golden Gate was 
