100 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



CHAPTEE IV. 



COMMENCEMENT OF SURVEYING OPERATIONS EXCURSION TO PATA- 



GONIAN COAST VISCID PLANTS DWARF CALCEOLARIA COLEOP- 



TERA CHIRODAMUS KINGII EDOTIA GUANACO : EARLY NOTICES 



OF; HABITS, ETC. CHINCHE OR SKUNK FOXES BOLTENIA — 



BRACHIOPODA OF STRAIT SECOND EXCURSION CAPE POSSESSION 



CONDORS — VOLUTA FERUSSACII GALE SAMOLUS SPATHU- 



LATUS IRON WRECK INHABITANTS OF NORTH-EASTERN FUEGIA 



CATHERINE POINT — CAPE ESPIRITU SANTO LARGE TUNIC AT A 



SEA-LION MILITARY STARLING SARMIENTO BANK WINDY 



WEATHER EXCURSION TO COAST OF ST. JAGO BAY GEESE GALE 



BURROWING RODENTS CARRANCH A S RHEA — B ANDURRI A 



VISIT THE PATAGONIAN CAMP AT SANDY POINT PATAGONIANS : 



ACCOUNTS OF THE OLDER NAVIGATORS ; RELIGIOUS AND OTHER 

 CEREMONIES. 



After laying in a supply of fresh provisions we left Sandy 

 Point on the morning of the 29th December, and proceeded 

 to the eastward to begin the surveying work. Eetracing our 

 course through the second and lirst Narrows, we anchored, 

 early in the evening, off Direction Hills, at about two miles 

 and a half from the shore, and here we remained at rest 

 during the 30th, Sunday, a bright day with a cold wind 

 blowing. Next morning we shifted berth farther into Pos- 

 session Bay, anchoring nearly opposite a spot where a stream 

 of water runs into the sea. In raising the anchor, a star-fish 

 (Aster acanthion), and a -fragment of a thin flat sponge, were 

 brought up and consigned to spirits. At an early hour two 

 surveying boats, with three officers, about a dozen men, and 



