Zoological Log of the Summer Station 



"OMOND HOUSE," SCOTIA BAY, SOUTH ORKNEYS 



T. H. HARVEY PIRIE, B.Sc., M.D., Cn.B., 

 Recorder 



Nov. 27th, 1903. Birds observed : skuas and terns fairly numerous, black-throated 

 and ringed penguins, shags, a few nellies, black-backed gulls, snowy petrels and a pair 

 of Wilson's petrels in the evening. 



Nov. 28th. Birds observed : skuas, terns, adelia and ringed penguins, shags, nellies, 

 gulls, one of which in immature plumage was shot, snowy petrels and Wilson's petrels. 



Noi\ 29th. Birds observed; skuas always numerous around the house after dead 

 birds terns, adelia and ringed penguins, shags, nellies, gulls in mature and immature 

 plumage, a second of the latter kind being shot to-day. Snowy petrels numerous about 

 the cliffs on the west side of Uruguay Cove. 



Cape pigeons seen there also for first time for several days. A pair of Wilson's 

 petrels over Jessie Bay. 



One Weddell seal on the ice in Uruguay Cove. We dug through the frozen surface 

 of a small pool which has formed on the northern part of The Beach and got about a foot 

 of water ; amongst the stones at the bottom we found abundant collembolids,- in a very 

 lively condition. These insects may be found under almost any stone. 



Xni'. 30th. Birds seen : skuas, gulls, terns, adelia and ringed penguins, shags, 

 nellies, paddies, snowy petrels and Cape pigeons. At Point Davis gulls' and terns' 

 nests ; one gull's nest with three eggs, one with two which we lifted, and several with 

 one (probably first one already taken). 



Dec. 1st. Uot embryos of gentoo penguins, 10 to 18 days. A few gentoos are bold 

 enough to peck at one in the rookery now, but most will still run from their nests ; but 

 it is not so with the adelias, who all attack fiercely if one goes amongst them. 



( lull's nest on lir.-u-li at 1'nint .Martin. One egg had been taken from there about 



'From November 27th, 1903, to February 14th, 1904, the Scotia was absent at Buenos .Aires and the 

 Falkland Islands coaling ami refitting. 



2 Isotoma Brucei and Cryptopygus crassus. I5uth these new species occur in abundance at the South 

 Orkneys. 



