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ducks, for the purpose of taking them and introducing them on 

 Kapiti Island, in Cook Strait. For this purpose Dr. L. Cockayne 

 and myself, with a photographer, set off with Captain Bollons in 

 a boat to Ewing Island, about two miles S.E. The birds were 

 soon captured, but it required a good deal of activity. The 

 ducks were first located among the boulders along the shore ; the 

 presence of the boat sent them up the bank and it then became a 

 land hunt, the birds generally disappearing down a mutton-bird 

 hole. The island was also very interesting from a naturalist and 

 botanical point of view. The birds are, on all these islands, 

 remarkably tame. The pipits, rather lighter in plumage than the 

 English meadow pipit, the black and white robin, and the snipe 

 seemed to constitute the land birds. The ground was honey- 

 combed with the holes of the various petrels, and there was a 

 large shag rookery on one of the headlands. These shags are 

 about the same size as the common British shag, but have a white 

 breast and bar on the wing, while the head and back and tail are 

 dark but set with a very lovely sheen in various shades of green. 

 The chief interest among the plants was the forest of Olearia 

 LyaUi which covered the low island from one end to the other, 

 and is particularly interesting since it is not found on the other 

 islands of the Auckland Group, with the exception of a small 

 patch on the main island, at Port Ross. I have already described 

 it growing on the Snares, where, however, I was unable to get any 



seedlings, but here the floor of the forest was carpeted with youn 

 plants of all sizes. It atmeara that. tVia "Rata (Motrr^iAwnz lurirh 



S 



(Metrosider 



swamp 



nence its disappearance from the main islands. The clear places 

 on the island were ocupied by Poa littorosa growing in large 

 tussocks. Having caught a dozen ducks we returned to the ship 



steamed 



from 



Stir ? ^ VayS Were , encam P e <*. The next day, November 28th, 

 wP?awT? n ? a g f° lo e ical P ar ty ashore on Auckland Island, we 

 ment t\££ 5£ ■ 6 ^ f ° r the SCene of the wreck on Dteappoint- 

 n wJf^ d ; T hl * V°> ni of the expedition was one of the most 



intprAaH™ *™ i. Z**** cApeuiuon was one or me i 



wreck S fESV* / U ; !l 0t 0nl >' from the P° int of view of 

 il ™ pntLT he fa ° that no ^ntists had ever been on it, »uu 

 Th I mwS ..^Plored, both botanically and geologically. 

 f^ e A m [? r l SB1 _? n 1 thatlt was covered with Rata was flora dispelled. 



the 

 and 



We 



small arui ««„«,* • — ± T. ?. " ao w u« seen at ail. we lanaea in a 



«Z£ rrr'?!!]" * the "**. and saw up the hill a Poa 



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ZTSSSSZZ K?V* Mtoocarpa potot*, Veronica Bentlmmi 



TheCt obfet 5fV i0i : med the chief vegetation of the island, 

 bite of stick Ifoi f 6r m Wa ! a kind of Ci> adle made of crooked 

 •SSJdBfaS? "£f mm «* as constructed from the wood of 

 structed b Y X ' t W f the fra mework of the boat con- 



reached the mainttn a3 fl S n^ y r meanS ° f which four of them * 



1U and discovered the depots in Port Ross. 



•[An article on the wreck n f tt,. n -, ,, 

 mclu.Ung one of the boat built n fL v Un , donald with various photographs, 

 The Wide World ^g^eXySmtmi "*** ****" wU1 to **»** " 



