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beef from cattle reared under these conditions, and I can 

 certainly affirm that the flesh was as superior to common 

 beef as three-year-old southdown mutton is to the ordinary 

 mutton purchased in London. From several conversations 

 I have had from time to time with the earlier settlers on 

 the Falklands, it must have been rather a risky matter to 

 attack in the open a Falkland Island tauro. A pair of 

 horns together with the frontal bones removed from the 

 head of one of these animals, and now in my possession, 

 measures 39^ inches from the extremity of one horn to 

 the other. A truly formidable beast. 



The promontory which forms the southern boundary 

 of Whaler Bay is separated from the next paddock by a 

 wire fence. On this neck of land I found the wild celery 

 {Apium graveolens) growing most luxuriantly. A very 

 large clump of our English furze growing not far above 

 high-water mark at once attracted my attention. It was 

 the invariable custom of the Government surveyors to 

 plant several of these shrubs near their camping grounds 

 when they were surveying these islands, and this fact 

 accounted for its presence in this remote spot. This plant 

 Ulex EuropcBus does not seed itself on these islands. 



During a visit to West Point Island where Penguin 

 rookeries abound I examined several scattered burrows 

 occupied by the Jackass VQX\%\x\n{^Spheniscus magellantcus), 

 before we reached the first Gen too rookery {Pygosceles 

 tcBniatd). Here we found some thousands of these birds, with 

 their nests on the hillside, amidst dense growths of Tussac. 

 Most of these birds had a couple of recently hatched 

 young ones, but in some instances they were almost full- 

 grown. A very few nests were observed with a couple of 

 unhatched eggs in them. It was interesting to notice 

 that the nests of these birds were constructed entirely of 

 Tussac grass, gathered from the plants hard by. The 



