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to the wings, Numenius, Scolopax, Phalaropus, 

 Ardea Nycticorax ; and lastly a small bird with 

 remarkably short legs, digitated, and with a short 

 thick bill, frequenting the sea-shore, and feeding on 

 seeds of Ritmex and Polygonum, and constituting a 

 new species, which may be called Thinocorus. Of 

 aquatic birds, there were two kinds of Sterna and La- 

 rus ; many thousands of Rynchqps nigra, which were 

 so numerous as to appear like clouds when they rose 

 into the air; a Procellaria of the variety Nectris; 

 two kinds of Podiceps, and an Aptenodytcs of the 

 variety Spheniscus. The upper part of the lat 

 ter was of a lead colour, and the lower part 

 white, with a line of dullish grey running from the 

 bill to the belly, and forming a boundary between 

 the two colours; the bill and legs quite black. 

 The animal was alive when brought to us. When 

 resting, it lay upon its belly and stretched out 

 its head. In the water it appeared unable to main 

 tain itself afloat except by incessant paddling, the 

 whole of the body being meanwhile under water. 



Of amphibia, only five kinds can be distinctly 

 named ; a brown Coluber, two small lizards of the 

 family of Scincoidea, a small Rana, with a spot like 

 an eye on the belly, and a small Biifo. Of fishes, 

 the most remarkable was a Torpedo, with the back 

 of a reddish brown, and smooth ; and a Callorhyn- 

 chus antarcticus : the latter may very well remain 

 in the class of Chimcera. Of crustacere, we collected 



