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inside one of the other fishes stomachs. The cooks caught a large stout nemertean 1 on a 

 line ; after the worm had been brought up it ejected the inch long bait and hook. 

 Skuas, paddies, geutoo and antarctic penguins, snowy petrels and gulls were seen during 

 the day. 



March 29th. Geutoo and antarctic penguins, nellies and a gull have been recorded 

 to-day. 



March 30th and 31st. Gentoo and antarctic penguins, nellies, sheathbills and 

 skuas have been seen during these two days, besides several Wcddell seals. 



April 1st. Paddies around the ship eating refuse. 



April 2nd. Gentoo and antarctic penguins, nellies, sheathbills, skuas, three shags 

 and one gull (young Larnx dominicanus) were seen to-day. Since the harbour has been 

 covered with ice, very few shags have been observed. A Weddell seal was clubbed by 

 some of the men, and an embrvo was secured from it. Some fish and a star-fish were 

 caught on the line by the cooks. Pirie shot two nellies near the carcase of a seal. 



Apnl 3rd. Several batches of penguins, about 50 to 200 in each batch, were seen 

 going north, and then coming back again. They march in single file, and when chased 

 they move quite as quick as a man, and go up very steep places. They have been seen 

 in places about 400 feet above sea level. 



April kth. Sheathbills, skuas, nellies, young and old gulls (Larus dominicanus), 

 and both species of penguins have been recorded to-day. The sheathbills are always 

 about the ship picking up refuse, and are quite tame ; on shore also they are always 

 about the tent. Several seals have been seen. 



April 5th. Sheathbills, nellies, skuas, gulls and a few geutoo penguins comprise the 

 list of birds seen to-day. In the afternoon there was not a single penguin to be seen on 

 the north side of Scotia Bay. Saw one Weddell seal asleep on the ice. 



April 6th. The same birds as yesterday. The gulls both young and old were in 

 greater force than yesterday. Heard several penguins last night. 



.April 7th. Sheathbills, snowy petrels, shags, skuas, nellies, gulls, adult and young, 

 and a few gentoo penguins were seen to-day. Specimens of a shag and two snowy 

 petrels were secured. In the afternoon lowered the small dredge 2 (about 11 to 12 

 fathoms bottom) in an open lane and secured several specimens. 



April 8th. The same birds seen as yesterday. A considerable number of penguins 

 were observed going along the foot of the eastern glacier. A ringed penguin was seen 

 by Mossrnan among a fiock of geutoos. Two skuas and a nelly were shot to-day. 

 Weddell seals were seen both yesterday and to-day ; one came up several times in an 

 open lane whilst we were dredging. Lowered middle-sized dredge to-day in same place as 

 yesterday; the depth there is 9j fathoms, increasing to 10^ fathoms towards the ship. 



April 9th. Early in the morning Pirie and I went over to Uruguay Cove. 



1 This animal, a species of Euborlasia, was very common, and is frequently referred to throughout the 

 winter as the " large nemertean." 



2 This dredge was the one used throughout the winter. The dimensions of its mouth were 6" by 2J- feet- 

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