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cgretta). The last bird, which we now saw for the first time, 

 appears to be not uncommon in Chiloe, and probably also 

 inhabits the Chonos Archipelago. The specimen shot on 

 this occasion, which I preserved, had numbers of a small 

 Dipterous insect crawling over the feathers. A variety of 

 marine animals also were taken in the dredge. Several 

 species of fish were present, among others the Agriopus his- 

 pidus, taken many years before by Mr. Darwin in the same 

 locality, Agonus Chiloensis, the fry of a Trypterygium, some 

 Notothenice, and a young specimen of a pipe-fish, the Syn- 

 gnathus acicularis, not uncommon on the coast of Chili. Among 

 the MoUusca were the Nassa Gayi, Ghlorostoma atrum, species 

 of Fissurella, etc. ; and the Echinoderms comprised two species 

 of Echinidce, one of them being the handsome Echinocidaris 

 dredged at Sholl Bay, and the other an undescribed form, of 

 which, I am informed by Mr. A. Agassiz, another specimen 

 exists in the museum at Stockholm. But few Crustacea were 

 obtained, and these principally species common to the Strait 

 and Channels (Eurypodii, PorcellancB, etc.) 



On the morning of the l7th we left Port Otway, and 

 crossed the Gulf of Penas, entering the Messier Channel in 

 the course of the afternoon, and anchoring about five p.m. in a 

 small cove off Fatal Bay in Wellington Island. Later in the 

 evening, when the ship swung with the tide, her stern almost 

 brushed the trees on one of the steep banks, and ropes were 

 accordingly laid out to the banks on either side, and fastened to 

 the trees, to prevent her suffering injury. Next morning we 

 moved slowly southwards, looking for harbours, and finally 

 anchoring in Island Harbour, on the coast of the mainland, 

 shortly after four P.M., immediately after which Dr. Campbell 

 and I landed to explore the neighbourhood. As is generally 

 the case in the harbours in the Channels, we found that there 



