[225] The stems of both from six to seven inches in diameter.
[226] This bird, although not rare in several English collections had never been noticed until I forwarded it to England in the early part of the year 1827, when my friend Mr. Vigors described it in the Zoological Journal for the month of November 1827 (vol. iii. p. 432), under the name of Mellisuga Kingii. Shortly afterwards, M. Lesson published it in his Manuel d'Ornithologie (vol. ii. p. 80), as Ornismya sephaniodes, as a discovery belonging to the Coquille's voyage, in the illustrations of which it is figured at plate 31.
[227] Sarmiento, p. 180.
[228] Narborough's Voyage, p. 78.
[229] Except gun-room, second and third messes.
[230] Except cabin, fourth and fifth messes.
[231] Except cabin, sixth and seventh messes.
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY ROBERT FITZ-ROY
([a]) By Nassau Island is meant the land forming the south shore of the Second Narrow.—R. F.
([b]) A kind of gun.—R. F.