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Sou t J icy n Cross. 



life and rosnit of the Seals durinf,' the breeding season is entirely 

 unknown. 



Miinh L'lW (A liuniLaiie has been blowing for the last two days). — 

 The "ale has cariicd away my Penguin, from which I was to have 

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

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



March '2'2ntL — Found two young Skuas, hardly able to tiy, 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 

 l-'inns and killed three Seals, (me young female without embryo, and two 

 male.s, also young animals. The contents of their stomachs were 

 remnants of fish. Found Seal mummy, No. 13, to-day, a fuU-gi'own 

 Liifiodi'ii, sex indeterminable. 



March 2:h-d. — Borchgre\ink and I shot some Skuas to-day. I killed 



A WEDDELL S SEAL. 

 (By permission of Sir George Jfewnes, Bart.) 



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

 again tills the bay. 



M'lnh '2^)(h. — The Finns and I were out Seal-hunting to-day. ^Ve 

 killeil 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-t'eatli(;rs were three-fourths developed. 



March 20///. — The Finns and I went again Seal-hunting. We killed 

 one--an old male. 



March 2\)th. — A couple of Seals {Leptonychotes iceddelli) 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 ince.ss}int motion. One of the Finns and myself had to run away three 

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



