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dog-kennel which he had on the bridge, to put it in, 

 and with the help of some wire netting the goose was 

 soon installed. 



The sun was setting now and tinged all the snow- 

 mountains with gold and rose colour, and they gradually 

 disappeared in the darkness to be seen by me no more 

 as next day there was a pouring rain ! 



We stopped about 24 hours at Melinka and then set 

 course to the south eastern coast of Chiloë. 



This part of Chiloë is rocky and there were still some 

 Ayitarctic Geese but I saw no more Steamer Ducks. 



More to the north the coast becomes mostly sandy and 

 no more Antarctic Geese were seen by me, so that the 

 south coast seems (at least on the eastern side) to be the 

 most northern limit of their distribution. 



The Steamer Duck I did not even see on or near the 

 south coast — nor saw it anywhere else afterwards. 



A little south of Queilen where I landed on the east 

 coast of Chiloë I saw a good many Black Cormorans, Gold- 

 croivned Humminghirds on the Fuchsias, and along the 

 sea a good many Cinclodes patagonicus. 



There were here a good many bushes of Escallonia 

 macrantha and other flowering shrubs, also the Climbing 

 Bamboo and a few Gunner a scabra. In the woods were 

 some Ferns that formed small trees with stems of two to 

 three feet height. 



There was a little greg bird with long pointed tail, 

 brown back and white eyebrowmarkings. 



In the port of Castro where we came a day later I saw 

 several Dolphins^ some Whitebreasted Cormorans and a good 

 many Blackheaded Gulls (out of colour of course) of which 

 some had beautiful roseate breasts. 



We afterwards passed opposite an island east of Chiloë 

 opposite Achao. Part of the coast looked as if it had fallen 

 away by the water getting under it, leaving a steap incline. 

 This was overgrown with Gunnera scabra and as I after- 

 wards found, places like this on the coast of Chiloë, were all 

 full of this same plant. There were miles and miles full of it. 



Notes from the Ijeyden Museuin, Vol. XXXA^. 



