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of the beak .if one <>f tin -in was made by Mr Bruce: they differ in colour especially 

 about the head. some being much lighter in colour than the others. The bills als.i differ 

 in colour, the three \ve secured yesterday showing this. Two .if them have a yellow 

 culnien.' and yellow under the lower mandible, while the third is almost entirely grey. 

 The inside of the mouth is yellow; the legs are of a pale grey, almt white in parts, 

 mottled with the darker grey towards the outer ends of the webs. The i^rey has a 

 distinct lavender tinge about it, much the same as the feathers. The eye-lid is black 

 as well as the cere ; at the lower angle posteriorly is a white patch of feathers, which in 

 flight looks like a white eyelid. The eye has a dark olive-green iris, while the pupil i< 

 bluish-black. (This has been painted.) The remains of a crustacean, about the ,-i/e .if 

 a Norway lobster, were found in the stomach of one of the birds above mentioned. 



Blue petrels, Cape pigeons, molliemauks, sooty albatroses, a wandering albatros, 

 Wilson's petrels and penguins were seen. 



In the evenim* a trawl was let down on the Burdwood Bank in 5(j fathoms, and 



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dragged over the bottom for forty minutes. The dynomometer registered a little over 4 

 tons, and about 150 fathoms of steel wire rope were paid out. rnfortunately just 

 before heaving up, the iron bolt (" goose-neck "), which fixes the derrick on to the main- 

 mast gave way, and caused considerable delay in hauling up the trawl ; in consequence 

 we had to sort the catch by lamp-light. 



The catch was an excellent one, and everyone on board was interested in sorting it. 

 which took us till two o'clock on the following morning, for the greater part, and till 

 noon on Tuesday before everything was bottled. 1 There was a great abundance of 

 sponges, and a kind of bryozoa. As we sorted the material out in comparative dark- 

 ness, phosphorescence was observed in some of the ti-hes. bryozoa, sponges, alcyonarians, 

 and in one large crab. 



About seventv species were included in the catch, of which the following is a 

 rough list. 



Fish. Four species represented by eleven, nineteen, one, and one specimens 

 respectively. 



Ascidians 



Lamellibranchs 



Chiton . . . 

 Brachiopod 



3 species. 



4 ., 

 3 

 1 



1 



Crabs .... 5 or G species. 

 Shrimp .... 1 

 Barnacle ... I ,, 



Polychaetes . . i) <n- (j 

 Hchinoids . . 2 ,, 



Brown "ot some crustaceans in his tow-netting before the trawl. Position of trawl 



54 25' S. 57 :VJ' \V. 



1 The largest and richest catch of the Expedition, totalling aWit half a ton. 



Ophiuroids 



Asteroids 



( Yinoids 



Holothurians 



Bryo/.oa 



Al.-voiiarians 



Spoli-es . . . . 



IVnnatulids 



( M her coelenterate- 



4 specie-. 



5 or t] species. 

 3 



7 

 3 



5 or 

 2 



1 



and various other specie-. 



