1780 The Zoologist — August, 1869. 



lions were observed with the glass. On the 30th of May they were 

 on Great Island in Adventure Bay, and here succeeded in capturing 

 the only two sta-lions met with, both of which were young females. 

 On the 8th of June two others (one male and one female) were taken 

 at North Point Island, off the same coast, the female being that which 

 is now in the Society's Gardens, and Lecomte immediately returned 

 with all four of them to Port Stanley. 



From Port Stanley Lecomte proceeded home by the packet ' Fawn,' 

 which meets the mail-steamer at Monte Video, with the following 

 living animals : — 



Four sea-lions [Olaria jiihata). 



One Gentoo jienguin [Pyyosceles W(igleri). 



Four rock-hopper penguins {Eudyptes iiiyriiestis). 



Six kelp geese [Chloephaga mayeUnnica and C. aiiiarclica). 



Nine logger-headed geese {Micropterus cinereus). 



Eight Johnny rooks {Milvayo australis). 



Seven cormorants {Phalacrocorax inayellaniciis and P. airiin- 

 culalus). 



Twelve gulls {Lurus dominicaims, L. Scoresbii, &c.) 



Six starlings [Slurnella milUaris). 



Twenty-two finches {Phryyilus melaiioderus). 



Two sea-hens {Hcei/iatopus iiiyer). 



Two foxes {Canis (Difarclicus). 



But the weather was very unfavourable between Port Stanley and 

 Monte Video, and seventy-one of the animals died en route. For 

 some time longer the four sea-lions remained in good health and con- 

 dition, but a passenger having died of yellow fever, the slock of fish 

 shipped for feeding them was condemned on account of its smell, and 

 ordered to be thrown overboard. 'I'he consequence was the loss of 

 three out of the four sea-lions — the survivor having been kept alive as 

 far as Lisbon, where a fresh supply was obtained, mainly by the 

 flying-fishes {Exoceti), which fell on the deck at night and were pur- 

 chased from the sailors who picked them up. 



Besides the sea-lion, Lecomte succeeded in bringing to the Gardens 

 only the following animals : — 



One antarctic wolf (Caw/* antarctic an). 



Two Forster's uiilvago {Milvayo leuciirus). 

 One kelp goose {Chloepliaya antarclica). 



Two upland geese [Chloephaga niayellaiiica). 



One Dominican gull {Lants dominicaniis) 



