68 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF THE SCOTIA 



Marc/i !>///, Off Coat ft Land. Wind gone down and altogether clearer to-day. A 

 party went out this morning and captured fifteen emperors ; two were brought alive 

 td the ship. A nelly, an antarctic and a snowy petrel were seen. Brown shot a skua. 1 

 Macdougall shot a sea-leopard, but unfortunately it got away. Other seals were also 

 seen, probably Lolxxlonx. 



Marcli 10f/i, Off Coatx Land. Mr Bruce shot a female Weddell seal. Lobodons 

 were seen. Two emperors were caught, and a few snowies and a skua seen. Large 

 trap lowered down to bottom at 1C>1 fathoms this evening. 



.I/a ;<// lltli, Off Coats Land. The trap was hauled up this morning. Catch 

 included three fish like the Notothenia caught in Scotia Bay, one isopod, three species 

 of amphipods, and one bryozoan with sponges and a few worm-tubes attached to it. A 

 nelly and a few snowies were seen. Many Lobodons and some AVeddells. 



Ma/'i-li I2t/i, Off Coat* Land. The contents of the trap in Ifil fathoms were one 

 fish, many amphipods, a chaetopod and another worm, a crinoid, an alcyonarian and a 

 sponge. There were more birds seen to-day, probably due to the ice breaking up and 

 forming open "leads." Antarctic and snowy petrels, nellies, skuas and one emperor 

 were seen, also Lobodons, a Weddell seal and a grampus. 



March 13///, Off Coats Land. Some snowy petrels and a few antarctic petrels. 

 Many Lobodons, chiefly in the water, a Weddell seal and a sea-leopard were seen. Mr 

 Bruce saw several bottle-noses and two grampuses. Kerr reports seeing two Ross 

 seals swimming in the leads. A ctenophore and compound ascidian were also noticed. 

 Mr Bruce saw tracks of an emperor this evening. 



March }4f/i, 73 ll'S. 23 53' W. Very many antarctic and snowy petrels, also 

 terns, flying about the ship to-day. Many emperors were seen this morning, also 

 two nellies and two adelias. Shot about twenty antarctic petrels and fifteen snowy 

 petrels. 



A great many Lobodons and two grampuses were seen. The captain heard a n'nner 

 blowing. Caught a Euphausia on a piece of pancake ice. 



Jl/ry/v// \5fJi, 71 50' S. 23 J 30' W. A great many antarctic and snowy petrels were 

 flying about the ship during the whole clay. One Cape pigeon and a good many terns 

 were seen. The captain saw a finner. 



A vertical net was lowered to 1000 fathoms and a fairly rich haul was made, in- 

 cluding five or six species of fish, 2 several examples of Doliolum, four species of 

 crustaceans, many specimens of Xat/tffa, several ctenophores, four species of medusoids 

 and some broken pieces of a jelly-fish. 



March \\\tli, 71" 28' S. 22 32' W. Antarctic and snowy petrels were constantly 

 hovering round the ship, also numerous terns and blue petrels. A few adelias and a 

 Cape pigeon were seen. A deep sea trawl was lowered down this morning bottom 



' Megalestris maccormicJci. 



- Including Prijmnofhonus Hooker i, Richardson (three specimens). The single existing specimen of this 

 previous to the Sofia's catch was taken by the Erelu* and the Terror, 1843. 



