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Ulster Lecojiiei Mars. 

 Saprhuts higeyis Er. 

 Cojiiontis Eschscholtzii Mann. 

 Eleodts consobrina Lee. 



I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Jas. E. Benedict, of the Na- 

 tional Museum, for the identification of the following Crustacea: 

 Hcterograpsiis nudiis Dana. 

 Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall. 

 Eupagunis hirsiithisciiliis Dana. 

 Ligia occidejitalis Dana. 

 Idoiea ? hirtipes Dana. 

 Pollicipes polyjuerus Sovverby . 

 Tetraclita porosa, var. Gmelin. 



The only batrachian of the islands has been previously recorded! 

 by Cope: 



Autodax liigiibris. 



BIRDS. 



Leaving the fisherman's wharf in San F'rancisco 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 seamanship 

 — 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 sea 

 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 

 Ibrtunate possession of a rubber coat saved me from being com- 

 pletelv 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 



