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specimens, including two species of frigate bird, and the 
seamen caught some of the multitudinous fish. We also 
fired shots at the sharks which soon thronged round the 
ship, and about which we were to think more before the 
day was done. 
The boat came back with the news that a possible land- 
ing-place had been found, and the landing parties got off 
about 8.30. The landing was very bad—a ledge of rock 
weathered out of the cliff to our right formed, as it were, a 
staging along which it was possible to pass on to a steeply 
shelving talus slope in front of us. The sea being com- 
paratively smooth, everybody was landed dry, with their 
guns and collecting gear. 
The best account of South Trinidad is contained in a 
letter written by Bowers to his mother, which is printed 
here. But some brief notes which I jotted down at the time 
may also be of interest, since they give an account of a 
different part of the island: 
“Having made a small depét of cartridges, together 
with a little fluffy tern and a tern’s egg, which Wilson 
found on the rocks, we climbed westward, round and up, 
to a point from which we could see into the East Bay. This 
was our first stand, and we shot several white-breasted 
petrel (CE strelata trinitatis), and also black-breasted petrel 
(Géstrelata arminjoniana). Later on we got over the brow 
of a cliff where the petrel were nesting. We took two nests, 
on each of which a white-breasted and a black-breasted 
petrel were paired. Wilson caught one in his hands and I 
caught another on its nest ; it really did not know whether 
it ought to fly away or not. This gives rise to an interest- 
ing problem, since these two birds have been classified as 
different species, and it now looks as though they are the 
same. 
“The gannets and terns were quite extraordinary, like 
all the living things there. If you stay still enough the 
terns perch on your head. In any case they will not fly off 
the rocks till you are two or three feet away. Several gan- 
nets were caught in the men’s hands. All the fish which 
the biologist collected to-day can travel quite fast on land. 
