54 MACQUARIE ISLAKD AND ITS KUTUHK. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. 

 Map of Macquarie Island. 



Plate II. 



Luxuriant herbage in a grully on the south-west side of 

 the island. The waters of the highland lakes descend by 

 rapid and deeply-entrenched courses to the sea. 



(Photo, by F. J. Henderson.) 



Plate III. 



The Nuggets Beach at Finger and Thumb Point. The 

 shore is thronged with Royal Penguins {Catarrhactes 

 schlegeli) , which come and go between the sea and their 

 rookery inland, high on the hill slopes. 



(Photo, by F. J. Henderson.) 



Plate IV. 



Bull Sea-clcphants in combat, a not unusual sight dur- 

 ing the months of spring. Such frays continue until one or 

 other is vanquished, sometimes lasting the whole day long. 



(Photo, by F. Hurley.) 



Plate V. 



Macquarie Island Skua Gulls (Megaleatris antarctica) 

 feeding on the carcase of a seal left by the sealers. 



(Photo, by R. L. Blake.) 



Plate VI. 



Victoria Penguins (Catarrhactes pachyrynchns) , a 

 variety made specially handsome by the adornment of a 

 crown and golden eyebrows. 



(Photo. l)y II. Hamilton. ) 



Pij\TE VII. 



A Bull Sea-elephant, just emerged from the ocean 

 water, challenges the Island population. 



(Photo, by F. .F. Henderson.) 



