A giant fulmar leaving its nest on a promontory over Cumberland Bay. From such a site as this, 

 these heavy-bodied birds can easily launch into flight, v^'hile on a level surface they must run for a con- 

 siderable distance, even when they are "in light ballast" 



A large, black petrel (Procellaria cequinoctialis) , which lacks an English name. — The Norwegian 

 whalers at South Georgia call it the shoemaker "because it sits in its shop and sings." During most of the 

 year it is a conspicuous and abundant species in the southern oceans, but in November, the Antarctic spring, 

 it returns to land, and digs a burrow into the partly frozen soil of some tussocky hillside. Colonies of 

 these petrels in their burrows make a chorus of sweet, bell-like piijings which can be heard a long distance, 

 particularly on calm evenings. This "shoemaker" is flying up the fjord to its nest. Cumberland Bay, 

 November 30, 1912 



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