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feathers are beginning to shed. He eats almost anything in the way of food, including 

 matches, hits of tobacco, or, if he can get them, quantities of stones. His regular diet 

 i> penguin and sonic bread, but he seems fondest offish and pebbles. 



Skuas appear to eat both dead skuas and dead nellies; but nellies themselves cat 

 neither. 



Trap lifted ; one small fish and one buckle. 



Jan. Sth. Birds about : three species of penguins, skuas, shags, nellies, gulls. 

 terns. Wilson's and snowy petrels, and paddies. In the droves of penguins on The 

 Beach by the house the ringed penguins are undoubtedly " bosses " ; they "jockey " the 

 black-throats and the few gentoos. Whales (finners) seen blowing close in in Jessie Bay. 



Had dredge down got nothing whatever in it. 



JKII. Otlt. Got many collembolids on a penguin's carcase on The Beach. These 

 insects are always to be found amongst the beach pebbles, where I suppose they can 

 always get food in the form of little bits of animal matter thrown up by the sea. 



Three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls, terns and Wilson's petrels. 



JKH. \0th. Birds about : three species of penguins (ringed are now bv far the most 

 abundant on The Beach), skuas, nellies, gulls, shags, terns, Wilson's and snowy petrels. 



Was up at Cape pigeon's nest above Uruguay Cove no chicks yet. 



./Kit. llth. Traps lifted one in G fathoms, two cushion-stars; one in 12 fathoms, 

 two large isopods, several yellow star-fish and cushion-stars and some few ainphipods. 



Dredged several times, but caught nothing. The dredge will not work downhill 

 and the wind is too strong to allow us to pull up against it. 



( lot a curious penguin on the South Beach, probably an albino P. <td?li(.'. 1 Plumage 

 a light mousey colour, darkest point under throat, beak same colour as adelia but rather 

 a short one ; eyes normal, tail white, with two extra tail feathers ; feet pale both above 

 and below. Numerous ringed penguins, a few gentoos, skuas, nellies, gulls, shags, terns- 

 Wilson's and snowy petrels. 



liot some tapes among penguin droppings on the ice-foot, most probably from P. 

 K,,/ri, <//<<< possibly however from P. nilc/im- very improbably from P. pKpua." 



Ja/i. \2tJi. Birds about: skuas, three species of penguins, nellies, gulls, terns, 

 paddies. Wilson's and snowy petrels. 



JKII. 1 :}fJi. Cape pigeons' eggs chipped and young alive inside. This makes incuba- 

 tion about 4:! days. Curious birds these they sit a month on their nests before laying, 

 and just before laying they clear out for several days, and then take six weeks to hatch. 



Wilson's petrels : found several more nests, some with old eggs and dead young birds. 

 Got three whole eggs and three broken through stones getting into the nests. Nests 

 difficult to get into, since some of the crevices where they are found are over three feet 

 deep. Eggs seem quite fresh yet, not long incubated. All other species of birds 

 observed about. Hourly temperature observations are being taken on a ringed penguin. 

 1 This supposition has since been verified. 



It was since found that, while almost all specimens of P. papua and P. anlarctica contained tape worms, 

 P. adeliue was always free of them. 



