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in the English Narrows, some miles to the northward, but was 

 disappointed, its range probably not extending so far south. 



Two animals new to science were here obtained, viz., a small 

 frog of a dirty yellow colour, which has since been described by 

 Dr. Gunther as a new species of " Cacotus" and an Uncinated 

 calamary, which has since been examined by Mr. Edgar Smith, 

 and found to represent a new species, to which he assigns the 

 name " Onychoteuthis ingens." The last-mentioned specimen was 

 found stranded on the beach. The body, from oral aperture to 

 extremity of caudal appendage, measured fifteen inches, and the 

 total length from caudal appendage to anterior extremity of 

 tentacles was two feet nine inches. The tentacular hooks were 

 very formidable. No other example of this species of squid was 

 encountered. 



Having completed the survey of the Covadonga Group, we 

 again proceeded on our way northwards. On the first night we 

 stopped at Gray Harbour, a port immediately to the northward 

 of the English Narrows. As soon as we had anchored, Lieutenant 

 Rooper and I took advantage of the few remaining hours of 

 twilight and started off in the skiff, directing our course towards 

 the head of the bay, where a fair-sized river entered the sea. We 

 proceeded up the river for about a quarter of a mile, finding its 

 banks composed of a bluish clay, and passing at its mouth a low 

 triangular island, which seemed to be a delta formed of clay and 

 sand washed down from the hills, and piled up here at the outlet 

 where the fresh water flow was dammed up in a measure by its 

 contact with the sea. On the pebbly shores of the river we 

 picked up several specimens of a pond snail — a species of Chilinia, 

 I believe ; and on working a light dredge in mid-stream, we 

 obtained many more specimens of the same. The location was 

 one eminently suggestive of the haunts of otters, nutria, and 

 water-fowl, but not a solitary animal of the kind was to be seen. 

 The disappointment, however, was one which our experience of 

 similar and equally tempting localities had taught us to be 



