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return from Cape Horn we found the 

 hiofh seas fleet reduced to one vessel and 



While awaiting action on my bird 

 collecting permit, I arranged to go 



Some of the most accessible colonies of peiigui;. .ii: :u!;:;ia .L.irl.v ui their eggs. While the col- 

 ony shown above was robbed of more than 25,000 eggs in 1914, a more fortunate colony three miles 

 away was not disturbed and many thousands of young birds were reared. Wholesale robbery of these 

 colonies for a number of years in succession would .soon exterminate the penguins 



The nest of the black oyster catcher is scratched in the gravelly beach above higli tide, and one 

 can find the two eggs merely by walking along the high water mark 



that one being carefully searched for, 

 but the season was too late to attempt 

 the Falklands then, and it was not until 

 the following October that we finally 

 landed at Port Stanley, the only town 

 in the archipelago. 



across the harbor, some five or six 

 miles, with the captain of a small cutter 

 to visit a gentoo penguin rookery. He 

 was going for eggs to eat, while I took 

 my camera — two cameras in fact, hop- 

 ing to get some clear pictures of this 



