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Of AinphihicPy there is not a vestige to be found on the 

 island ; the birds belong for the most part to the powerful-winged 

 web-footed birds that frequent the open ocean, as, for exam- 

 ple, the Diomedea exulans (great albatross or man-of-w^ar bird), 

 D. chlororhynclius (yellow-billed albatross), D, faliginosa (a 

 new one not determined), Lestris catarracteSy Sto?'na sp: 

 Prion VittatuSy of which the four last-named, at the time 

 of our visit, had both eggs and young. Of birds with 

 fin-shaped wings, there was the golden-crested penguin 

 {Apterodijtes clirysocoma S.)^ living in two distinct colonies 

 among the precipitous overhanging cliflfs, with innumerable 

 young, already of a pretty good size.* We also remarked 

 several other winged denizens of the deep, which had alighted 

 on our ship during the last few days immediately preceding our 

 arrival at St. Paul. According to the fisher3'-people, the 

 other birds of the island quit it altogelher so soon as their 

 young have grown sufficiently, and only return when the next 

 breeding season comes round. 



In contradistinction to the sea-birds, M. Frauenfeld re- 

 marked but one single land-bird, a swallow, whose movements 

 seemed to indicate that he was watching a breeding female. 

 A stray bird on this lonely spot of earth, nearly 3000 miles 



* One of the zoologists, Mr. Zelebor, endeavoured to kill two penguins that had 

 been caught alive in the island, the one with arsenic, the other with chloroform. Of 

 the latter, a quantity was administered enough to have killed a man, but which 

 scarcely affected the penguin, who, in a quarter of an hour after, seemed quite 

 restored to himself. The second, which had swallowed two tea-spoonsful of aisenic, 

 died eight hoiu's later. 



