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year he had obtained four young sea-lions, but was unable to rear 

 them, and all died from want of suitable food. Nothing daunted 

 by this loss, Lecomte tried again, and in June returned to Port 

 Stanley with four others (one male and three females), and a 

 collection of other animals, of which the following is a list : 



8 Johnny Rooks (Milvagos) 

 1 Gentoo Penguin 



4 Eockhopper Penguins 

 6 Kelp Geese 



9 Loggerheaded Geese 



7 Cormorants 



6 Starlings 



22 Finches 



2 Sea-hens (Black Oyster-Catchers) 



2 Antarctic Wolves 



12 Gulls (Dominican and Scoresby's) 



On board the packet between Port Stanley and Monte Video 

 Lecomte lost seventy-one animals of the eighty-three shipped. 

 The surviving stock was transferred to the mail-boat at the South 

 American port, and for some time the sea-lions remained in good 

 health and condition. The death of a passenger was, rightly 

 or wrongly, attributed to yellow fever,"^ and the doctor ordered 

 Lecomte to throw overboard the fish he had shipped for feed- 

 ing his sea-lions. In consequence three of the four died, and 

 the survivor (a female) was kept alive as far as Lisbon (where a 

 fresh stock of fish was obtained) chiefly by the flying-fish which 

 fell on the deck, and these Lecomte purchased from the sailors 

 who picked them up. 



When this animal arrived at the Gardens it was " about the 

 size of an ordinary seal, very thin, but still in good health." 

 The only other animals brought by Lecomte were: 



1 Antarctic Wolf I 2 Upland Geese 



2 Milvagos I 1 Kelp Goose ; and 



1 Dominican Gull 



Although the results were less satisfactory than had been 

 expected, the Council stated in the Report that they had 

 "every reason to be satisfied with Lecomte's conduct during 

 this difficult and dangerous expedition." 



Dr. Wilson, of the Antarctic exploring ship Discovery, re- 

 cently called attention to the practice of boiling down penguins 



* In Land and Water of August 29, 1868, Frank Buckland wrote : " One of the 

 passengers being taken ill with a chest disease, it was imagined there was yellow 

 fever on hoard." The Council's Eeport (1869, p. 23) states that "the passenger 

 died of yellow fever." 



