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The White Gander is a most beautiful bird and quite a 

 feature in the landscape. 



Inhabitants of the country told me that these geese 

 never go inland like the upland and other geese and never 

 go in large flocks. 



The brilliant weather which I had all the time I steamed 

 through the Smith and other Channels made the whole 

 scenery most glorious to behold and made it also very 

 easy to see and observe the birds. . 



Tachyeres cinereus was constantly seen and also little 

 strings of Spheniscus magellanicus. 



During the course of the second night after we had 

 entered the Smith Channel we got out of the narrow sea- 

 passages and crossed the gulf of Penas to enter a deep 

 bay in the morning, behind the Tres Montes peninsula. 



To get to Slight harbour which was the object, we had 

 to get through another series of narrow passages between 

 beautiful forest clad hills, and it was about eleven in the 

 morning when we reached Slight harbour, where the ship 

 had to bring some building material for a lighthouse 

 which was being erected on the pacific side of the penin- 

 sula, but which place could not be reached from the 

 outside so that the material had to be brought to its 

 destination over land which united the Tres Montes point 

 to the mainland about 3'/2 kilometer away over perfectly 

 flat wooded country. 



Slight harbour (Hoppner sound) is the end of a beautiful 

 deep bay and, hearing it would take several hours to 

 unload the cargo, I asked for a boat and had myself 

 rowed ashore. 



Not far from the landingplace was a small promontory 

 into the sea formed by loose stones and this plac^ was 

 full of birds. The majority consisted of the White Breasted 

 Cormoran Phal. alhiventer. 



Amongst them was one solitary black one Phal. brasiliensis, 

 then there were a good many Larus dominicanus and on 

 a conspicuous place like the king of the whole tribe a 

 beautiful solitary male jinf arctic Goose. Having 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



