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Rh an itinerary of the voyage. Mr. Moore, as a naturalist, frequently narrates most interesting observations. Thus, at Tahiti, "a little Kingfisher is always found along the streams and their dry beds, apparently depending more upon insects, which it catches on the wing, than upon the usual food of its kind." At the village of Hihifa, on the island of Tongatabu, there is a remarkable rookery of Fruit-Bats, occupying about fifteen adjoining trees, and estimated to contain upwards of six thousand individuals. Although these animals destroy considerable quantities of fruit, they are "tapu," and under the immediate protection of the chief of Hihifa, and are not permitted to be shot or molested in any manner.

Mr. C.H. Townsend has supplied a "Chronological Bibliography relative to the Work of the Albatross," in which no fewer than some two hundred and forty-four memoirs are enumerated, relating wholly or in part to the results of this voyage; a long list is also given of papers still to be published on the same subject.