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Prion tartar. 



Prion banksii. 



Prion vittatns. 



QHstrelata . . . 



Ossifraga gigantea. 



Puffinus ...(?) 



Puffinus . . . (?) 



Garrodia nereis. 



Fregetta melanog aster . (?) 



Anas superciliosa. 



Eudyptes chrysocomus (victoria penguin). 



Eudyptes schlegeli (royal penguin). 



Pygoscelis tceniatus (rock-hopper). 



Aptenodytes longirostris (king penguin). 

 As I mentioned at the commencement of my paper, the 

 object of our visit was to obtain good specimens of the 

 skeleton of the adult male sea-elephant — Morunga elephantina 

 (Macrorhinus leoninus). The season at which we went was 

 not a favourable one for the purpose, as the only specimens 

 we saw were on the wild west coast of the island. Taking 

 advantage of a fine but cold day (the average temperature 

 during our stay on the island, taken at 9 a.m., was 50°) we 

 crossed in a south-west direction to the west coast, and, after 

 struggling over the bare and bleak hill-tops against the icy 

 blasts from the antarctic, we descended to a sheltered bay, 

 and here we saw several of the huge monsters among the 

 large tussocks some little distance from the stony beach. 

 Each animal had formed a kind of wallow in the wet swampy 

 ground, and seemed to be passing the time in sleep until the 

 old coat had fallen off and a new fur had grown. All seemed 

 fat and quite happy. One old gentleman remained whilst I 

 took several photographs of him at a distance of a few feet, and, 

 as I was anxious to get a photograph of the distended nose, 

 which is so remarkable, we pelted him with stones until he 

 raised up his head, inflated his nostrils, and roared. Unfor- 

 tunately the photographs w 7 ere not very successful, but, as the 

 aspect of this curious inflation is of some interest, I have given 

 an outline drawn from the life and from a photograph taken at 

 the same time (Plate L.). After some further teasing the old 

 fellow went down to the sea with an awkward-looking but rapid 

 motion. Two other specimens at the other end of the beach 

 were sketched, and then driven out to sea. One of them, 

 strange to say, reared up and roared, taking exactly the form 

 given in the old voyagers' plate, which apparently looks so 

 absurd and impossible." Once in the water they went out to 



* See Anson's Voyages, 1742. The plate No. xxxii. in the Paris 

 edition, 1807, of Peron's Voyages, gives a very fair representation of the 

 head and trunk. 



