( IM ) 



Dec. 26. — Collected over niuety birds. Put iiji some thirty in the afternoon. 

 Boobies, gnlls and frijjate birds are breeding here. 



l>ec. 27. — Collected about loO birds. Got a lot of cactus for tortoise. Have 

 decided that there is too much risk in trying to reach Oocos Island. Main reason, if 

 becalmed for a while we should lose the tortoises, run short of food, and have 

 trouble with cajitain and crew ; so in the morning will set sail for California. 



Dec. 28. — After considerable delay got under way at IS a.m. ^\'orked all day 

 putting up birds. The distance sailed from Tagus Cove to Tower Island by log 

 registered 1400 miles: true distance 110 miles; the ditterence lost by drifting! 

 Reached Ran Francisco on Februarv sth, 1S98. 



HI. 

 NOTES FROM THE DI.^RY OF MR. F. P. MHdWNE. 



(Although the diary of Mr. Drowue is very often a rejietition of Mr. Harris' 

 notes, we preferred to publish it — with some omissions — nevertheless, as it contains 

 many interesting notes. The sketches are all from photographs, the albatrosses 

 drawn from life.) 



.June 21, 1897. — Left port of San Francisco. Saw many cormorants, gulls, 

 Californian murres, etc., around the boat. Began to feel sick soon after starting. 



June 22. — Quite sick. Beating around in the neighbourhood of the Farallones. 



.Tune 23. — Much sicker. 



June 24. — Quite sick in the morning, but began to feel better in the afternoon. 

 Passed Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Islands. 



June 25. — Felt better. Quite a stiff breeze, and out of sight of land. 



June 26. — Passed Guadalnpe Island, a high, rocky land, and apparently barren, 

 with tlie exception of a few trees at one end. 



June 27. — Out of sight of land. Saw specimens of the " Spanish man-of-war" 

 floating on the surface. 



June 28. — Hull caught a large bundle of goose barnacles resembling Le/K/.i 

 /'ascicularis, larger than I ever saw on the New England coast. The water was full 

 of these bunches, and there were many '' men-of-war " passing by. 



June 29. — Felt qnite sick in the morning, but took a bath after dinner, and felt 

 much better. Ate a good supper — my first meal since we left San Francisco. In 

 the evening felt well enough to play the flute for a while. The " Spanish men-of- 

 war" covered the water, and were visible in the moonlight for a long distance. 



.June 30. — Felt like myself again. Saw a red-billed tropic bird, which circled 

 around the vessel a few times. Not much wind. 



.J'/y 1. — Beck shot a pair of red-billed tropic birds ( J'//fii-f/wn nihricnudii), and 

 two shearwaters : also found a smiill crab attached to loir-line, an adidt female with 

 eggs. Each of the party made up one skin. Later Hull shut another tropic bird 

 (eye very dark brown, feet a greenish white and black). Harris shot two red- 

 footed boobies {Sula piscatrix websteri), (eye hazel-brown, feet salmon, arountl eye 

 violet blue, naked pouch nearly all black, around base of bill a light pink, bill very 

 pale horny green). 



