Description of animals seen during Captain Cook's second circumnavigation of the earth from 1771 to 1775. This is probably a reworking of an earlier manuscript, begun in 1775, as indicated in a letter from Johann Reinhold Forster to Carl Linnaeus, 10 November 1775 n.s., "The Linnaean correspondence", linnaeus.c18.net, letter L5163.
Inlcudes 22 mammals, 7 birds, 1 amphibian, and 6 fishes.