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and had set again in a curious fashion, with the u-ele-- toot turned lower side upmost 

 attached to the side of the leg. A -ha;: was also caught at the open water near 

 I'oint Martin, and it disgorged some -mall li-h when struck. Mackenzie killed a skua, 

 with a stick in the afternoon. 



Xor. IN/. A southerly gale. Skua-, paddie- and penguin- seen. Three paddies 

 shot. (lulls and snowy petrels wheel ineessantlv alioiit the elitf-, the latter. a- a rule. 

 high up. Bodies of penguin-, both adelia and gentoo, pas- between the rookcrie- and 

 their feeding grounds in -lessie Bay, and nellie- and skuas pa-- liy occa-ioiiallv, 

 the nellies still attracted by blubber and carrion, hut the skua- more intent on hovering 

 over penguin rookeries in search of egg-. Aliout :!li()i) e^g- (actual total :} 14;")) brought 

 in to-day from the Large rookery bv all hand-. Several nests with two e^^- in each. 

 A shag and a tern seen over .lessie Bay in the afternoon. One gentoo egg wa- found 

 at the large rookery, hut so near in appearance do they approach to the adelia egg 

 that, being put in the same basket, it was impossible to definitely pick it out when the 

 eggs came altoard. 



Johnnie Smith saw a ringed penguin (Pygoscelis antwctica) at the big rookerv 

 to-day. 



Xr. '.\i-il. The penguins appear to leave the rookeries in the early morning and 

 move to the open water, returning ahout noon and all through the afternoon. A great 

 many gentoo.s passed the house, travelling south this morning: by their number- thev 

 would appear to he new arrivals. 



Snowy petrels are circling ahout high up on the face of the cliffs. Skuas and 

 black-backed gulls are to lie seen around the ship anil the house whenever there is any 

 carrion. There was also a white nelly this morning by the house. A large Hock 

 of several hundred shags Hew northward. At Point Davis I saw many gulls either 

 wheeling overhead or settling in pairs on the snow. Terns were also pairing, but 

 I found no nests. 



A Weddell seal in Uruguay Cove. 



X<\ 4t!i. The birds seen were adelia and gentoo penguin-, but fewer, since 

 Jessie Bay and Uruguay COM- are very full of ice. Nellies, -kuas. tern-, gulls, paddies 

 and snowies. Skuas are becoming very numerous. 



Xr. r>///. Jes-ie Bay and Uruguay Cove open again, and several bodies of penguins 

 crossed over from the rookeries in the morning, and returned in the afternoon. 



I went to the small rookery 1 in the afternoon and marked -everal c^g-. which 

 appeared new-laid, with the date. More gentoos have arrived there, and occupied 

 some of the low-lving ground. A- ii-ual. thev ran when I came near them, but 

 returned a- soon as I had passed ; in the meantime 1 had put an adelia egg in a gentoo 

 nest. The owner of the nest returned, and looked at the egg -u-piciou-ly. -niHed it 



1 This small rookery, the nearest to the ship, is on a rocky islet, nil' tin- " Half-moon" glacier, iiani^l 

 Theodolite Point. On Nov. 8th all eggs were cleared away, and, after that date, eggs were marked daily, 

 and embryos taken with a view to "l>t;iiniiii, r a emnjplete aeries f"i a -tudy <>f the development of the 

 geiitoo penguin. 



