20 
■bird that nests in Japan, comes to ns in 
November, and leaves again in March 
(generally). This year it is later. 
Soaring majestically, even higher 
than the swifts, were the wedge-tailed 
eagle (20), and the white-bellied sea 
eagle (21 . Some ot oiir party visited 
the nest of the Intter, which was placed 
in a tree close to the water’s edge on 
the north side of the bay. 
Among the birds of the lakes, we ob¬ 
served the black Swan (22), and a 
species of duck ; apparently the Aus¬ 
tralian wild duck (23). Owing to the 
dryness of the past season, the Swans 
did not appear to have nested on these 
lakes, but there were many remnants 
of the nests from the previous year. 
We now leave the birds of the lake for 
those of the bay and the sea. 
Altogether, nine species were observ¬ 
ed. Each day, about our fishing nets 
in camp, we had two species of gulls, 
the Silver (24 and the Pacific (25). The 
latter had a family of throe, young, and 
all brown ; the adults are mostly snow- 
white. It takes these young birds 
three years to mature into the clear 
black and white plumage of the adult. 
Upon the rocks of the stormy coast, 
the white-breasted cormorant (26) 
would sit, without fear of the thunder¬ 
ing ocean. Soaring in the distance 
were two white birds, diving vertically 
at intervals—one was the Bass Straits 
tern (27). the other the Australian 
gannet (28), or solan goose, as it is 
called in European waters. 
The first bird will nest upon the 
sand-beaches, in or near the hay, while 
tile second will nest on the islands in 
Bass Straits. They will congregate in 
as many as 2,000 birds, and lav their 
eggs. 
On the beach we found dead speci¬ 
mens of two species of ocean birds, the- 
little penguin (29), and the whale-bird 
(30). The latter bird comes to this 
shore in the evening, and during nest¬ 
ing time will lay its single white egg 
in a burrow in the ground. During the 
daytime, one parent will sit quietly up¬ 
on the egg, until evening, when its 
mate comes in, either to take its place, 
or feed it. This bird is a member of 
the petrel family, just as the mutton- 
bird (31) is- each kind conies to the 
shore in the evening in vast numbers. 
Flinders records a flock of the mutton- 
birds to number 150 million, while the 
present writer has seen many millions 
of the whale-bird flying into land with 
the setting of the sun in Kerguelen 
Island. Such a sight as these millions 
of living snowflakes prestint, with the 
reflection of tile dying sun upon them, 
streaming to their nesting ground, is, 
indeed, wonderful, and not easily for¬ 
gotten. 
The greatest of all the sea-birds is 
the wandering albatross (32); several 
patrolled the blue waters of the Penin¬ 
sula, never caring to come into the bay. 
They had in their company, a second 
and smaller albatross, known to us as 
the shy (33) or cautious species. Both 
performed their beautiful, wheeling 
flight as well-known to the ancient 
mariner as to any member of our mod¬ 
ern expedition. The ease and grace of 
the flight is to-day a living wonder to 
all who see it. Even the higher mathe¬ 
matician has gone into pages of figures 
to supply the explanation of such ease, 
grace, ami impetus. The shy albatross 
nests in a little colony upon Albatross 
Rock in Bass Straits. The bird is said 
to he found only in Tasmanian waters. 
1. Acanthorhynclius tenuirostris. 
2. Acr.nthochaera mellivora. 
3. A. inaurus. 
4. Meliomis nustralasiana. 
5. M. iiovie-hollamliifc. 
6. Artamus sordidus. 
7. Malurus cyuneus. 
8. I.ngonophistes (?). 
9. Collyriocincla vectirostris. 
10. Cmcliens cinereus. 
11. Acanttiiza diemenensis. 
12. Oalamantlris fulizinosus. 
13. Petiogca Leggii. 
14. Pardnlotus u(finis. 
15. P. punctatus. 
16. Btrepera nrgnta. 
17. Platyeereus flaviventer. 
18. Cinclosoma punctatum. 
19. Cluetura spinicaudus. 
20. Ci lelns aurhix. 
21. tlaliietus leucogaster. 
22. Chenopus atrata. 
23. Anas superciliosa. 
21 . hums jamesouii. 
23. L. paeifie'ls. 
26. Phalacrocorax leucogaster. 
27. Sterna bergi. 
28. Suln Australis. 
29. Endyptp.s minor. 
30. Prion desolates. 
31. Piiflmus tenuirostris. 
32. I Diomede a exulans. 
33. D. cauta. 
