102 E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



Explanation of Plates. 

 pi. i. 



Fig. 1. Cbick of Ghionis Cumberland Bay. Painted by A. Ekblom. 



Pl. II. 



Fig. 2. Head of Nettion georgicum, Cumberland Bay, after a colour-sketeh made by E. Sörling on South 



Georgia, painted by A. Ekblom. 

 Fig. 3. Bill seen from above of the same. 

 Fig. 4. Head of Phalacrocorax atriceps, Cumberland Bay, after a colour-sketeh made by E. Sörling on South 



Georgia, painted by A. Ekblom. 

 Fig. 5. Bill seen from above of the same. 



Pl. III. 



Fig. 6. Disturbed and roaring old Elephant-seals, in the season wheu they shed their hair. Cumberland 



Bay. (Sörling photo.) 

 Fig. 7. Disturbed young Elephant-seals in the tussock-grass, Cumberland Bay. (Sörling photo.) 

 Fig. 8. Young Elephant-seals sleeping on the beach. Several specimens of Ghionis. Cumberland Bay. 



Sörling photo.) 

 Fig. 9. Young Elephant-seals intending to go into the sea. A Ghionis. The same locality. (Sörling photo.) 

 Fig. 10. Young Elephant-seals vvbich have just come ashore. The same locality. (Sörling photo.) 

 Fig. 11. View of the beach vvith several specimens of Ghionis. (Sörling photo.) 



Pl. IV. 



Fig. 12. Copulating Elephant seals Cumberland Bay. (Sörling photo.) 



Fig. 13. Copulating Elephant-seals. The same locality. (Sörling photo.) 



Fig. 14. A bull of Elephant-seal vvith many scars. The same locality. (Sörling photo.) 



Fig. 15. Sleeping Elephant-seal (semiadult). The same locality. (Sörling photo). 



Fig. 16. An old bull of Elephant-seal with the proboscis slackened in the act of expiration. (Sörling 



photo.) 



Fig. 17. A semiadult bull of Elephant-seal. (Sörling photo.) 





