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Fcl>. \:\tli, 5'J 56' S. 4!) :',(.)' \V. Wilson's petrels. Cap*.' pigeons and niolliemauks 

 verv plentiful, as well as silver and blue petrels. A few sootv alhatrose-. 1 and two skuas 

 were seen, the latter eating the mutton we have on hoard. ( (ue of tin- men saw a 

 large whale. 



Felt. 14///. /"''".'/""// (-'"''''. - s '""'/' Orkneys. Land sighted ahont ''> A.M. Am-horeil 

 in l T ruguay Cove about noon. Nellies, ('ape pigeons, terns, HIOWV petrels, Wilson's 

 petrels and a silver petrel were seen. 



Feb. \sth. Si-ofin /In//. t'snal South Orkney birds. 



Feb. \7tli. Srnfiif flu//. In the evening a party landed on the west shore and shot 

 two Weddell seals, male and female. About fifty seals, all Weddells. \veiv lyin.u on the 

 sandy lieaeh. 



FcJ>. IS/A. S<-<ifi liny. -^Ir Bruce, Valette, Kerr and 1 went to the west shore to 

 tret nellies and photographs of seals. Terns, a shag, Cape pigeons, nellies, skuas. MIOWV 

 and Wilson's petrels and gulls were seen, besides gentoo penguins. A skua, two 

 nellies and a penguin were secured with a view to preserving the brains. Some whales' 

 bones were got on the west shore,- including a zygomatic arch, a mandible and some 

 vcrtehr.T. About seventy seals (Weddells) were lying along the beach when we landed. 

 One of them, a young one, had a wound at the nape of its neck, measuring aliout 7 inches 

 in length and about 2 inches in width. 



Feb. I!)///, Xi-ntin liny. Nellies, skuas, shags, penguins (adelia and ringed), terns. 

 black-backed gulls, Wilson's petrels and Cape pigeons were seen during the day. 



Feb. '21 nf. Scot in liny. Five cushion-stars, two other star-fish, four gasteropods. 

 several pycnogons and three fish (Xntnffienin) were found in the trap to-day. One of 

 the fish was given to a young Loboilon, captured on the North Beach a few days a^o : 

 the other fish were kept for his special benefit, but he does not appear to appreciate 

 them. We have had him a week now, and he does not seem any tamer. 



F'li. _'_'/"/. Left Scotia Bay at noon. Landed on Killium Isle to slaughter 

 penguins for food and specimens. Only ringed penguins were found, and we took both 

 yoiinu,' and adult, also four adult paddies and one voung. Saw a threat many shags On the 

 water and shot five. Two whales, probably tinners, were seen off Saddle Island : fur 

 some time' they were on the surface of the water and then disappeared. Nellie.-, -kuas. 

 Cape pigeons and Wilson's petrels were also seen very frequently. 



Fell. !'.'> ril. (11 -S' S. 41 55' W. A sootv albatros-. a few snowv. blue and silver 

 petrels, besides manv ('ape pigeons and Wilson's petrels were seen during the day. 

 ]\Ir Bruce and Fitchie saw a lai'-e albatros after lea/ Several tinner- were al-o ob- 

 served during the dav. Brown took a tow-iieltini: at noon. 



Fcli. -24f/i. (I'-' 4!' S. :5S I2'W. A skua' (same as the-,' in Laurie Nand) was 

 seen this e\ T eniiiL:. al-o a large albatros in the afternoon. A sooty albatros \\a- hovering 



' Proliably Phoebelria wiri<i<-<iiili-x, Hiillnii's s..,,ty a 11 ati.i-. 



2 Thi.- M>"ty nlti:itros was Phoebelnn cornicoides. Imlividuals of the .-prcics <!< -i^liti-il unril (IT S. 

 was reached. I><<HIH <l<<t: SU/IIHX. 4 'I'll- 1 -mitliem rec<'i>l fm- Mrgalestris anlarctica. 



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