478 G. E. Verrill — Some Birds and Eggs, etc. 



Jan. IT. Partiallr foggy tliis forenoon. Wind X.^V. Afternoon, wind S.TV. with a 

 few rain squalls. Fog increasing at times and then clearing up. At 

 night quite thick. 



18. Quite pleasant weather. Partially cloudy. "Wind S.S."W. this morning 



but by night hauled to "W.. light. 



19. Weather set in stormy this forenoon with fresh breeze from X.W. Foggy 



and rain squalls. 



20. Weather is gradually setting in thick with light rain and fog. Wind X.E., 



light, though increasing. 



21. Quite pleasant to-day. Wind X.W., fresh. 



22. Wind X.W.. strong, with a few rain squalls. 



23. [The schooner arrived and they left the island.] 



EXPLAXATIOX OF PLATES. 



Plate A'III.* 



Figure 1. — Thalassogeron e:dmius sp. nov. From a skin from Gough Island, collected 

 by Geo. Comer, f natural size. 



Figure 2. — Thalassogeron exirnius sp. nov. From a skeleton from Gough Island, col- 

 lected by Geo. Comer, f natural size. 



Plate IX. 



Figure 1. — Eudyptts chrysoconie atrifroivs var. nov. From a skin from Kerguelen, col- 

 lected by Geo. Comer. ^ natural size. 



Figure 2. — Eudyptes chrysolopTius (Brandt). Xo. 746b. From a mounted specimen 

 from Kerguelen, presented by R. H. Chapell. 4- natural size. 



Figure 3. — Eudyptes chrysoIopJius (Brandt). Xo. "46a. From a mounted specimen 

 from Kerguelen, presented by R. H. Chapell. ^ natural size. 

 All of the above figures are crayon-lithographs from natural size drawings, by 



A. H. Yerrill, of the original specimens. 



* The four preceding plates, illustrating Mr. Emer ton's paper, were erroneously 

 numbered. They should have been numbered IV, Y, YJ^ Til. 



