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life and resort of the Seals during the breeding season is entirely 

 unknown. 



March 21s/ (A hurricane has been blowing for the last two days). — 

 The gale has carried away my Penguin, from which I was to have 

 studied the moulting problem. The wind took the box with the bird in 

 it, and I presume that he is now sailing merrily along to New Zealand. 



March '22nd. — Found two young 8kuas, hardly able to fly, at an 

 altitude of 1,050 feet, but some of the dogs, which followed us, killed 

 them, so they were of no use for the collection. Went out with the 

 Finns and killed three Seals, one young female without embryo, and two 

 males, also young animals. The contents of their stomachs were 

 remnants of fish. Found Seal mummy. No. 13, to-day, a full-grown 

 Lohodon, sex indeterminable. 



March 2'3rd. — Borchgrevink and I shot some Skuas to-day. I killed 



A WEDDELL S SEAL. 

 (Bij 2}ermission of Sir George ycwnes, Bart.) 



nine. No Seals observed to-day, neither in the sea nor on the ice, which 

 again fills the bay. 



March 25th. — The Finns and I were out Seal-hunting to-day. We 

 killed four, three of which were males, the fourth a female with an 

 embryo 9 inches long. Seven Penguins visited us to-day and were killed. 

 Their tail-feathers were three-fourths developed. 



March 2Qth. — The Finns and I went again Seal-hunting. We killed 

 one — an old male. 



March 29th. — A couple of Seals (Leptonychotes iceddeUi) have been 

 killed to-day. One was a female with an embryo nine inches long. 

 During these last few days the bay has been filled with ice which has been 

 in incessant motion. One of the Finns and myself had to run away three 

 times from a Seal we were skimiing, only about 100 yards from the land, 



