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which looked like a atim&taie Notothenia ; several cushion-stars and many amphipods 

 were also on the carcases. 



Went out to Point Davis and had a look at the Weddell seals \\itli their xmui--. 

 Brought home a young oue. The two mothers whom \ve had previously deprived of 

 their young were still at the same place had not taken to the water yet. The firsl 

 one's young was taken on Monday, the 7th inst., and the other one's mi tlie sth inst. 

 Three or four snowy pelivK t \ V o nellies and three black-backed gulls were seen. 



Sept. llth. Some Serpula on weed and a sea-ni-ehin with well developed testes were 

 in the dredge. Two flocks of shags, several Mack-hacked gulls, nellies and -nowy 

 petrels were -ecu during the da}'. The dredgc-liole has been blasted f'>r some distance, 

 so that we will not be able to do any more dredging for the present. 1 



Sept. 12th. The baby seal, which we brought to the ship on the 10th inst., is still 

 thriving, though it has not taken nourishment freely; a little milk was forced down 

 its throat. 



Snowy petrels, nellies, black-backed gulls and shags were seen, and some gentoo 

 penguins landed from Jessie Bay. 



Sept. 13th. The same birds seen as yesterday. The seal is getting more 

 sociable and likes to be petted. Pirie rigged up a feeding bottle, which, however, 

 baby seal does not understand. 



Sept. 14th. The baby seal has at last taken to the bottle. She (the baby is a 

 female) took about a pint of milk, and does not cry so much. Her crying is sometimes 

 very like a human baby's. More gentoo penguins arrived on The Beach from the north. 

 Snowy petrels, black-backed gulls and two shags were seen. 



Si'/it. \r>tli. I was too premature in writing yesterday that the seal took to the 

 bottle; she sucked at it for a very little time, and to-day refused the bottle altogether, 

 so milk was poured down her throat. 



Pirie, from a boat in Uruguay Cove, shot three shags and a black-backed null. The 

 shags were in splendid condition and had a far better plumage than in the autumn. 

 The cere was very prominent, colour cadmion ; round the eye there was a patch of 

 cobalt colour. A tuft of feathers ornamented the crest of the bird; the colour of 

 its feet and legs were light scarlet. The artist made a very good painting of its head. 

 The black-backed gull had, besides the yellow of its lower jaw. a patch of crimson on 

 cither side; the gape was also tinged with crimson. Numerous snowy pctivN, black- 

 backed gulls, one in its young or mottled plumage, -hags, four nellies and two gentoo 

 penguins were seen. Tn the afternoon I shot two -.hags. A Weddcll seal was also seen 

 in Uruguay Cove close iu-shore. Limpets and yellow star-fish were seen on the sea- 

 bottom and one pycnogon frozen in the pan-cake ice. 



Sept. IGth. Hauled up the trap from the hole on the port bow, depth 11 fathom-. 

 In it were four fish (Notothenia), 125 cushion-stars and an isopod. Also hauled up the 



1 At this time we were attempting to blast and cut a canal through the floe to .the open water beyond, 

 hoping to liberate the ship. 



