142 CHARLES HEDLEY. 
Laminaria, on stalks radiating from a thick ovate central stalk. 
Another of the white-bellied Porpoises was killed to-day. The 
weather is now quite pleasant. 
13th. S. Lat 46° 12’. E. Lon. 134° 41’. Wind N.W. Av. 6k. 
14th. S. Lat. 45° 42’. E. Lon. 139° 39’ Wind S.W. Av. 9k. 
A pure white bird, of the size of D. fulginosus, but rather the 
shape of D. exulans, was seen to-day. While looking at it I could 
scarce help concluding that it, and D. chlororhynchus? also, were 
among the numerous varieties (if varieties is a proper term for 
several forms seen in these latitudes) of D. fulginosus. 
15th. S. Lat. 45° 45’. E. Lon. 144° 27’. Wind S.W. Av. 7 k. 
16th. S. Lat. 45° 1’. E. Lon. 148° 29’. Wind W. Av. 9k. 
A cast for temperature was taken with the following results : 
Surface t. = 54°. At 100 fms. = 50°. At 500 fms. = 45°. 
17th. S. Lat. 42° 53’. E. Lon. 151° 55’. Wind S.W. Av. 8 k. 
Having passed the southern point of Van Diemen’s Land we 
now begin to haul up to the northward. <A small ‘‘Mother Oary’s 
Chicken” was seen to-day, of a species new to us, but very much 
resembling V-24. The water has a greenish tinge. 
18th. S. Lat. 40° 14’. E. Lon. 154° 9’. Wind S.W. Av. 7 k. 
Sunday. In the evening the strong S.W. wind, which has done 
us so good service for some weeks past, left us, and we enter the 
region of variables. 
19th. S. Lat. 38° 59’. E. Lon. 154° 11". Wind N. Av. 5k. 
The temperature is now 64°, that of the water 62°. 
20th. S, Lat. 38° 47’. E. Lon. 152° 40’. Wind N. Av. 3k. 
The calms now give me an opportnnity of using the tow-net to 
advantage. At noon I took a Salpa, a Vellela, a small Physalia 
with apical vesicles separate from its regular vesicle cluster, and a 
singular blue or glaucous Jdotaea which was common on little sticks, 
etc., covered with Anatifae. A very remarkable Stomapod was | 
also taken. 
21st. S. Lat. 38° 1’. E. Lon. 152° 34’. Wind E. Av. 3 k. 
