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Skuas: four nests with two egg- and one with one egg on mossy rock. Left all 

 these eggs. 



(Julls: one egg I think the second laid one in a nest on the rocky islet (Shag 

 Hocks), commencing to hatch (seen -Itiue 7th). This gives an incubation period of 27 

 days. Cape pigeons' eggs not yet hatched. 



Wilson's petrels : caught one. a female, in same nest where a bird and egg have 

 alreadv been got. Three species of penguins, nellies, snowies and shags about. 



Seals : 98 Weddell seals Iving on the beach at Point Martin. About 50 more in the 

 neighbourhood of the large rookery and several on the North Beach. No other seals seen. 



(iot a holotlmrian and a ue\v species of crustacean floating entangled in weed on the 

 surface. 



!><<-. IVtli. Three species of penguins, skuas, gulls, nellies, terns and snowy petrels. 

 In a pool of melted snow on the North Beach several tape-worms were found. If they 

 have not come from the dog Russ, it seems most probable that they are from the skua-, 

 as they bathe very frequently in that pool. 



Dec. 30///. (Jot three young gulls at Point Davis, two of which were killed and 

 one was picked up dead. The one we kept alive is well and lively, and blessed with a 

 huge ever-present, omnivorous appetite. No young terns seen ; I think the}' must 

 hide themselves. 



Birds : three species of penguins, paddies, skuas, gulls, nellies, Wilson's and snowy 

 petrels, shags and one Cape pigeon. 



("Jot a small chaetopod worm swimming near the surface of the water by the shore ; 

 seems to have eggs attached ventrally. 



Kxamined scrapings of rocks and mud from pools on mossy rocks for diatoms, 

 and found insect larvae (probably collembolids) and also small thread-worms. 



Di'<-. 3lst. Birds : three species of penguins, skuas, gulls, nellies, shags, Wilson's 

 and snowy petrels. 



Weddell seals on ice in Uruguay Cove, 



Jan. 1st, 1904. Birds : three species of penguins, shags, nellies, gulls and snowies. 



.In a. 2nd. In shore pools got small nemerteans with eggs in capsules attached to 

 them, small Hat sea-anemones attached to rocks, a new species of holothurian and some 

 small molluscs. 



Went down to small rookery and got phonograph records; good of black-throated 

 penguins, but poor one of gentoos as the birds would not stay on their nests ; moreover 

 this record got cracked afterwards. All other twelve species of birds except Cape pigeons. 



Numerous Weddell seals on The Beach. 



Dredge. 10 to 5 fathoms between spit and cairn, gravel, weed and mud. Tempera- 

 ture of surface 31 "'5. Contained one small fish, probably of same species as the second 

 most common one we have got, several small isopods, a new species of heart-urchin, 

 numerous pycnogons, some small crustaceans and molluscs. 



Trap. Numerous buckics, a few star-fish, and three fish of the common species. 



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