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austra/is, Caberea grandis, and others. After hauling the boat 

 into its shed, we started for our camp, reaching there about 5 

 o'clock. Mr. Gabriel stayed with Mr. Brown, and later on in the 

 evening helped him and his son to row the small boat round to 

 our cove with the seine net. The first haul only brought to shore 

 one garfish, two or three salmon, and some whitebait, but in the 

 next cast about two cwt. of fish were taken, being principally 

 salmon and skip-jacks, with a few mullet, and one small shark. 

 As both the lighthouse people and ourselves were now plentifully 

 supplied, we did not try again, but returned to camp with our 

 spoils. Mr. Gabriel, Mr. Brown, and his son Frank rowed the 

 boat back again, and had a hard pull against an adverse current 

 before they reached the boat shed. 

 Deal Some of us started early on Wednesday morning to visit a 



Island, landslip which we were told existed on the other side of the 

 island. After a walk of about two miles we came to the place, 

 and found that a very small rivulet of water had gradually worn 

 out a large gulch on open country on the lower slope of a hill. 

 The excavation extended about two hundred yards down to the 

 beach of Freestone Cove, and was about fifteen feet deep and 

 twenty feet across. During the heavy rains the sides tumble in, 

 and the friable soil soon gets washed away. We soon clambered 

 down and saw from about three feet from the surface to the 

 bottom small bones sticking out from the sides in thin layers, 

 and also a good many laying loose at the bottom. The majority 

 of the bones evidently belonged to sea-birds, and those exposed 

 to the air were very brittle. At the lowest depth we were for- 

 tunate enough to find a fossil jaw-bone of what we have since 

 found to be the Giant Kangaroo ( M. gigas). We also collected 

 specimens of all the bones we could find, and they have been 

 submitted to Professor M'Coy, who has kindly examined them, 

 and states that, excepting the jaw-bone, they all belong to small 

 marsupials and birds. We regretted not being able to spend more 

 time at this interesting place. Leaving this " valley of dry 

 bones," we proceeded to some thick swamp ti-tree about a mile 

 away, and had a rough walk along the steep sides of a hill to 

 reach it, passing on our way a few musk bushes in flower. The 

 ti-tree was also flowering, and attracted hundreds of wasps, which 

 flew buzzing round in swarms when disturbed. We found the 

 nest of the Olivaceous Thickhead with two eggs in, and secured 

 a specimen of the Allied Pardalotus. Tracks of opossums were 

 numerous, but we did not obtain a specimen. A pair of Brown 

 Hawks were circling over us while we were hunting through the 

 ti-tree scrub. We returned to camp in time for lunch, and at 2 

 o'clock we all started for a large penguin rookery on the other 

 side of the hill that overlooked our camp. We had a steep climb 

 down through masses of the Goodenia, pig-face, tussocky grass, 



