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.fit, i. _':!/'/. Same birds as yesterday : the penguins, however, have nearly all left The 

 Beach and not a couple of dozen remain. Latter) v .Mossman has been noting a habit 

 of theirs during the night-time. Up till 2.10A.M. they lie sleeping peaceably; then 

 some of them wake, and, stretching up their necks, start a chorus which is kept up 

 intermittently till about 4 A.M. by which time they are all more or less awake and on 

 the move. But all do not keep awake and moving (either on laud or sea) all day 

 long. At any given time during the day some may be found asleep, usually on the 

 snow, very rarely on the beach. Snowy petrels and shags have not been seen for some 

 days now. Weddell seals seen in the water, and whales blowing to the north-west. 



Jan. -24th. Three species of penguins back again in considerable numbers to The 

 Beach. Nellies, skuas, terns, Wilson's petrels and gulls. Smith reported seeing two 

 entirely white birds about the size of gulls. Cape pigeons seen flying over Wilton 

 Bay. 



Jan. _',")///. Three species of penguins, nellies, gulls, skuas, terns, and Wilson's 

 petrels, one shag and one snowy. (4ot more tape-worms out of both ringed and 

 gentoo penguins, the larger in the gentoo, but both similar in appearance and situation. 

 i.e. cysts mostly near the upper end of gut. No tape-worms in black-throated pen- 

 guins killed to-day. 



.Inn. _'(!///. Three species of penguins, nellies, gulls, skuas, terns and Wilson's 

 petrels. Weddell seals swimming in Scotia Bay. Amongst roots of weed thrown up 

 on shore of Uruguay Cove, got numerous " worms " of various kinds, also holothurians 

 and ophiuroids. 



Jan. '27f/i. Black-throated and ringed penguins, nellies, skuas, gulls, terns. 

 Wilson's petrels and one shag. Seals in both Scotia Bay and Jessie Bav. 



Jan. -2*'/i. Got two young snowy petrels on east side of Jessie Bay, but the 

 parent birds were not at home in either case. The birds emitted a harsh whistling 

 note like the old ones and ejected red fluid from their stomachs just as the parents do : 

 stomachs crammed full of red crustaceans. A Wilson's petrel egg also found. About 

 half-a-dozen young adelia penguins appeared on The Beach to-dav. and some got as 

 far across as the North Beach. 



The note of the young bird is very like the " uiaa inaa " of a very young lamb. 

 Some had not entirely lost their down, and the white ring round the eve is in none 

 of them showing more than a trace of white. 



Others birds about: three species of penguins, gulls, skuas, nellies, terns, Wilson's 

 petrels and snowy petrels. 



.fn,i. 2 ( .)f/i. Visited the large penguin rookery: the great majority of the youiii: 

 adelias have not yet taken to the water since the casting of the down is not completed. 

 This process commences on the breast and under parts of the body, neck and flipper-, 

 and then on the dorsal aspects, the last parts to cast being generally above the root 

 of the tail and at the base of the flippers, and finally the crown of the head. 



The young gentoo penguins have not yet begun to lose their down. 

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