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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
recorded from the island. South Trinidad is a small 
volcanic island lying about 500 miles from the coast of 
Brazil, whence it has derived its scanty fauna and flora 
by means of such agents as winds, ocean currents, and 
birds. On the voyage home we actually saw one of these 
agencies at work. When the ship was rather more than a 
hundred miles from the Brazilian coast, to the southward 
of Trinidad, a large number of moths, belonging to about 
four species, were blown on board by a S.W. wind. 
An up-to-date account of the fauna and flora of this 
island will be included in the Reports. 
New Zealand 
When the Terra Nova was engaged upon her three 
months' surveying in the neighbourhood of the Three 
Kings Islands, off the extreme north of New Zealand, 
some 80 samples of plankton and 32 samples of sea-water 
were obtained. 
Seven successful trawls in depths varying from 
15 to 300 fathoms yielded a good collection of benthos 
from this area. 
During the first winter the ship's biologist spent five 
weeks at Mr. Cook's whaling station near the Bay of 
Islands in the north of New Zealand ; and in the second 
winter, through the kindness of Mr. L. S. Hasle, four 
months were spent on two Norwegian floating factories 
which were exploiting the same waters. Three species of 
whalebone whales were examined and found to be identical 
with the three northern species — Balanoptera Sibbaldi^ 
the Blue Whale ; B. borealts, Rudolphi's Rorqual ; and 
