78 THE VOYAGE OF THE 'DISCOVERY' [Nov. 



birds inhabiting the icy seas are now known ; sooner or later 

 during our voyage we saw all, but we were not often in circum- 

 stances to make such a good bag as during our short visit to 

 the ice in November. It was then that for the first time we 

 saw and captured the Southern Fulmar, a beautiful bluish-grey 

 petrel ; the Antarctic petrel, a white bird with brown barred 

 wings and head ; the Snow petrel, with its pure white plumage • 

 and two species of the small blue Prion or Whale-bird. 



On November 22 we sighted Macquarie Island, which lies 

 about 600 miles S.W, of New Zealand, and as we came 

 abreast of it early in the afternoon I thought we might devote 

 the few hours of daylight which remained to an excursion on 

 shore. We accordingly anchored in Fisherman's Cove, a 

 poorly-sheltered spot to the eastward of the island, and after 

 pushing through thick kelp we succeeded in landing on a 

 sheltered beach, and our naturalists were soon busily at work 

 making collections. The western slopes of the island are 

 bare, but on the eastern side a coarse tussock grass grows 

 thickly and makes walking rather difficult. Our attention was 

 principally devoted to the penguin rookeries on the beach, ot 

 which there were two inhabited by different species of birds, 

 the larger and more numerous kind being the richly coloured 

 King penguin, and the other a small crested penguin 

 {Schlegeli). 



It was the first time that any of us had seen a penguin 

 rookery, and every detail of their strange habits proved 

 absorbingly interesting; we were lucky enough to have arrived 

 during the nesting season, and were able to collect specimens 

 of eggs and of the young in various stages of development. 

 Perhaps the most excited member of our party was my small 

 Aberdeen terrier ' Scamp,' who was highly delighted with his 

 run on shore, until he came to the penguins, when he was 

 most obviously and comically divided between a desire to run 

 away and a feeling that he ought to appear bold in such 

 strange company. The result was a series of short rushes, 

 made with suppressed growls and every hair bristling, but 

 ending at a very safe distance. I may add that ' Scamp ' 



