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or strike witli tlir liookcd iiicUidibU', wht'ii t\ic 

 impxesfili^li is strong, but not so great ae would 



peeled Ikom m laige a Mtii. 



On the 24th of July, 1832, in hitittidc 40^^ 32' 

 south, longitude 50" 45' cast, we riipturt-d tlio 

 species called cMoroi^pichusJ' It was taken by 

 getting its wing entauglad H lk& line, (whielr 

 was o^t idlh a Wi iilMtei to hi) a* it itew 

 under the stern^ it was too Ortd ^ bird to take 

 bait, but not so wise as to escape the line, 

 and avoid l)eing' entangled in it. On being 

 hauled on board, it became unusually voci- 

 f^Wif «iid fij^ainad for liberty in loud, hoarse, 

 discordant cries. Wh^gaii in the gentlest man- 

 ner inian'ina1.)le, we commenced measuring him, 

 be velieinently exelainunl against it, and was 

 declared by ail on board a very noisy bird ; 

 he was, probably, an stager, perfectly weU 

 &9me of like fate that awaited ium . He i^^oeived 

 the usual share of commiseration from the ladies 

 when they understood he was to be dissected, 

 accompanied by a request for the down. 



* It is difficult, indeetl I should say impossible, to state 

 coifxectlj the species of Alf»^tr<s§s «eeti during fil^M, i^ai'titu- 

 larly by the plimiagc, as, at one tlmu. In a certain |>osition, 

 the appearance Is difterent from that which it assumes, almost 

 immediately afterwards, m another. 



