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penguins, cormorants, starlings, &c., also four sea- 

 lions and the two wolves. The weather was very- 

 bad between Port Stanley and Monte Video ; and 

 the " Fawn " making a very stormy passage, no less 

 than seventy-one animals were lost in crossing. 

 Arrived at the mainland, Lecomte embarked on the 

 homeward bound steamer with the wreck of his 

 collection. Alas! his troubles were not over; he 

 arrived home shorn of nearly all the results of his 

 long and industrious labours. Like Aeneas, he had 

 "suffered more than his fate," for some half dozen 

 specimens alone remained. One of the Falkland 

 wolves had perished on the journey ; the survivor 

 was installed at the Gardens on August 24th, 1868. 



16, 17. Two years after Lecomte's ill-fated ex- 

 pedition Mr. H. Byng obtained a pair of these 

 wolves and sent them off to London; the male died 

 en route, but the female was received at the Zoo on 

 November 8th, 1870. This and the preceding ones 

 are the only attempts made to send this species 

 alive to England, or indeed to Europe as far as the 

 present writer is aware. The hyoid bone of one of the 

 Zoo specimens, purchased from Mr. Gerrard in 1870, 

 is now in the Royal College of Surgeons' Museum. 



18. The skeleton of an Antarctic wolf, presented 

 by the authorities of Haslar Hospital, is now in the 

 National Collection. 



19. The skull of this species found by Mr. 



