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fisher — Humble-bee — Play a Parda Cove — Desfontainea — Part 

 with H.M.S. " Zealous," and return to Sandy Point — Animals 

 observed on the route — Peckett Harbour — Thinocorus and 

 Attagis — Chloephaga poliocephala — Oazy Harbour — Hippuris 

 — Botrychium — Buteo erythronotus . . . . .151 



CHAPTEE VI. 



Excursion to Quartermaster Island — Cormorant rookery — Bur- 

 rowing owl — Gregory Bay — Discovery of Patagonian cranium 

 — ^Excursions to Fuegian coast — Lizards — Night alarm — 

 Lithodes — Scrolls — Mass of fresh water near the coast of 

 Philip Bay — Acsena, etc. — Discovery of Fuegian cranium — 

 Short-eared owl — Excursion to St. Jago Bay — Joined by a 

 party of Patagonians, and accompany them on a guanaco- 

 hunt — Flamingoes — Phrygilus Aldunatii — Fungi in the 

 woods at Sandy Point — Arrival of H.M.S. " Spiteful" — Inter- 

 view with Patagonians — Small owl — New species of ray — 

 Querquedula cyanoptera — Visit burned Patagonian — Cape 

 Negro — Animals cast up on the beach at Sandy Point after a 

 gale . 189 



CHAPTEE YII. 



Voyage to Eio — Eemarkable stomachs of petrels — Flight of alba- 

 tross — Arrival at Rio — Flowers in the gardens — Manatee — 

 Market — Tank-road — Twining ferns — Tree-frog — Excursion 

 to Eodeio — Dom Pedi'o Eailway — Serra do Mar — Remarkable 

 creepers and epiphytes — Oj^ossums — Coral-snake — Gigantic 

 tree — Bulimus Taunaisii — Excursion to Tijuca — Cascades — 

 Enormous boulders — Barrachutas — Discovery of fresh- water 

 crab with live young — Excursion to Paqueta — Pitanga bushes 

 — Animals found on screw of " Nassau" — Swift-running crabs 

 — Gallinazos — Saliba ants . . . . . .223 



CHAPTEE YIII. 



Leave Rio for the Strait — Arrive at Monte Video — Excursion to 

 Buenos Ayres — Museum — Roman Catholic procession — Leave 



