Nov. - Dec., 1854 Los Chero like Welix and a Truncatella occurred at the foot of the Cliffs. A small Mole was common, and a species of Rat was found about the houses of the inhabitants. Tree-toads, of two or three species were not uncommon: four or five kinds of snakes and the same number of lizards occurred. Of birds a considerable number of species was obtained, as I made many excursions along the beach to the North-ward, with the gun. Among these were a duck, a large heron, two egrets, a pigeon a jay, a king-fisher, and several kinds of plovers and shipes or sand-pipers. The species of Charadrius and Fringa were particularly numerous, and abundant in individuals, the larger species affording us many a good breakfast. A large Curlew was occasionally shot, and gulls and terns were seen off the coast, some species of which were obtained. The large plover fed at low waters in the holes and crevices of the reefs, and when the tide was up, in the saddy fields; these afforded us food sport at all hours. On