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

 living animals : — 



4 Sea-Lions (^Otariajubata). 



1 Geutoo Penguin (^Pi/ffosceles wagleri). 



4 Rock-hopper Penguins {Eudyptes nigrivestis) . 



6 Kelp Geese {Chloephaga magellanica and C antarcticd). 

 9 Logger-headed Geese (Micropterus cinereus), 



8 Johnny Rooks (Mihaffo australis). 



7 Cormorants {Phalacrocorax mayellanicus and P. carunculatus) . 

 12 Gulls (Larus dominicanus, L. scoresbii, &c.). 



6 Starlings (Sturnella militaris). 

 22 Finches {Phrygilus melanoderus). 



2 Sea-hens {Hcematopus niger). 

 2 Foxes (^Canis antarcticus) . 



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 

 condition ; but a passenger having died of yellow fever, the stock of 

 fish shipped for feeding them was condemned on account of its smell 

 and ordered to be thrown overboard. The consequence was the loss 

 of three out of the four Sea-Lions — the survivor having been kept 

 alive as far as Lisbon, when a fresh supply was obtained, mainly by 

 the Flying-fishes (Exoceti), which fell on the deck at night and were 

 purchased from the sailors who picked them up. 



Besides the Sea-Lion, Lecomte succeeded in bringing to the Gar- 

 dens only the following animals : — 



1 Antarctic WoU (Cams antarcticus). 



2 Forster's Milvago {Milvago leucurus). 



1 Kelp Goose (Chloephaga antarctica). 



2 Upland Geese {Chloephaga magellanica). 

 1 Dominican Gull (Larus dominicanus) . 



8. A young male African Two-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros 

 bicornis), purchased September 11 th (see Plate XLI.). This animal, 

 which was believed to be the first individual of the species which had 

 reached Europe alive since the days of the Romans, was purchased 

 for the Society of Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, the well-known dealer of 

 Hamburgh. It had been originally captured, on the 12th of Fe- 

 bruary 1868, by the Arabs of the Beni-Ammer tribe, in the vicinity 

 of Casala, in Upper Nubia, and sold by them to Herr Casanova, au 

 enterprising traveller of Vienna. Pending the completion of the 

 new house for Rhinoceros and Elephants, 'now in process of erection, 

 this Rhinoceros had been temporarily lodged in the Giraffe House. 



9. Two specimens of the Dotted-jawed Cayman (Jacare punctu- 

 lata), obtained in the Island of Tobago and presented to the Society 

 by Capt. Spicer, of the ship 'Mary,' on the 18th of September. 



10. On the 14th of October, a selection had been obtained from 

 a series of Chilian and La-Platan animals sent to Europe by the 

 newly established Zoological Society of Santiago, to be disposed of 



