34 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF THE SCOTIA 



ordinary Notothenia was 1 Ib. 2f ozs., average length 12 '2 ins. Twenty-nine were females, 

 thirty-eight males and nine undetermined. Three males and three females had their 

 reproductive organs fairly well developed. Forty-two had four first dorsal fin rays, 

 thirty-one had five, tw r o had six and one had three. Several small fish, red crustacean 

 spawn, large nemerteans, and other beasts were found in these fishes stomachs. A 

 nelly, two black-backed gulls and paddies were seen. 



July \^th. Paddies were seen. There is nothing else to record. 



July 20th. Only a large star-fish, with young attached, and two or three pycnogons 

 were caught in the dredge. No. 2 trap contained thirteen fish, some cushion-stars and 

 the usual amphipods. The fish were of the ordinary Notothenia type. Average weight 

 was 14'9 ozs., average length 1T9 ins. Three male, seven female and three un- 

 determined. Five had five first dorsal fin rays and eight had four. A black-backed 

 gull and paddies were seen. 



July 21st. Very poor catch in the dredge ; a few pycnogons, one small isopod, two 

 large nemerteans, and a broken sea-urchin, and some sea-weed with attached bryozoa. 

 One of the large nemerteans ate two pycnogons whilst in a basin in the laboratory. 

 Birds have been seen in greater quantities, possibly because the day has been fine. 

 Some nellies, black and otherwise, black-backed gulls, several snowy petrels and four 

 paddies. 



July 22nd. Two large red pycnogons copulating, a sponge with sea-weed growing 

 on it, and some small pycnogons were caught in the dredge. Eighty-seven fish in No. 

 1 trap, twelve in No. 2, with the usual amphipods in both traps. About a dozen 

 cushion -stars in No. 2 trap. All the fish were of the ordinary type. The average 

 weight of ninety-eight fish was 1 \ Ibs., average length 13 '9 ins. Fifty-six were females, 

 a third of which had their reproductive organs in an advanced stage ; twenty-one were 

 males, a half of which had milt exuding from them ; twenty-one were undetermined. 

 Thirty-six had five first dorsal fin rays, fifty-nine had four, two had three and one had 

 six. The usual various colours were observed in the fish, and their stomachs contained 

 smaller fish, bait (seal) and other matter. 



Paddies, snowy petrels, black-backed gulls and nellies were seen during the day, 

 also a skua by Mr Bruce. 



July 23rd. Very poor catch in the dredge, only two star-fish, a soft tunicate 

 and three or four pycnogons. Did not go to the traps. Lowered a small trap where 

 soundings are being taken in the middle of Scotia Bay in 37 fathoms. Black-backed 

 gulls, snowy petrels, nellies and paddies were seen. Pirie shot a male Weddell seal 

 and two snowy petrels. 



July 24:th. Only one cushion-star and five pycnogons in the dredge. No. 1 trap 

 yielded seven fish, No. 2 eleven, and about a dozen cushion -stars. All the fish were of 

 the ordinary type. The average weight of the eighteen fish was 1 Ib., average length 

 12 '2 ins. Ten were female, three male and five undetermined (preserved). The sexual 

 organs of neither sex were in a mature condition. Ten had five first dorsal fin rays, 



