i,^ Sou t lien I Cross. 



Yolk IsI.ukI. What iiilcn-.stcd iiic uklsI was lliat they had t'ouiul a 

 umiiJMT ..f S.'als, hut no yMiui-,', iirithor did thoy tind any fomalos with 



enihrvos. 



Au<i>ixl 20//».— Olc killrd yoKtorday two females of Woddcll's Seal, hut 

 without eiuhryos. One was a youiif,' animal, so this perhaps has had 

 Moni', l)ut the other was an old animal. I cannot understand where the 



yi'uny are. 



Si plnnher 'Wd. — To-day Itrought me a solution of the question, as to where 

 W't'ddfUs Seal Itreeds, as theyha\e found embryos, nearly ready for birth, 

 in a eouple of Seals of this .species which they killed, and also a young one, 

 whieh they had found on the ice. This appeared, however, not to be quite 

 fully born, as it had not the covering-hair, peculiar to the young vSeal. In 

 one" of the Seals they killed to-day, they found an embryo four feet long, 

 with fully-developed covering-hair. Among the content.? of the stomachs 

 ihev found only little tish, but in several were fragments of a red Cray- 

 fish, of whiih they brought me a tolerably well-preserved specimen. Every 

 time they a])proached one of these animals, especially the female.s, they gave 

 out an angry roar like that of a bull, which we never have heard before 

 here. Only in April we heard this roar now and again, when the animals 

 were in the sea. They saw not a single White Seal in their trip (to Duke 

 of York Island), so where this Seal now dwells is still a mystery. Perhaps 

 Kvans will tind it out when he starts on his next expedition. I am, 

 unfortunately, still unable to move about. Kolbein saw a brown-backed 

 Petrel {T. anfardica) outside the house last night. 



Septemher '^th. — Yesterday and to-day I have been busy, drawing and 

 measuring the Cray-fish wliich E\ans and Fougner brought me, and 

 examining the embryos. The head of the young Seal w'hich Borchgre- 

 vink found, they also brought me, and, by its long woolly hair, it must 

 have beeix full-born, but probably killed by the dogs. 



Septemher 10/Zf. — The Seals are beginning to return here again now 

 and to-morrow Fougner is going out to kill some for food. 



Septemher \'Mh. — Yesterday they observed some Pagodroma nivea on 

 Duke of York Island. They kept about 1000 feet up in the mountain, 

 and when they Hew they played about in pairs, incessantly giving vent 

 t«> the l)efore-mentioned sound, " kaw-kaw," but they were perfectly .silent 

 when sitting on the rocks. They have also found a new species of fish, 

 and al.so the backbone of a very lai'ge fish and some beaks of Octopus in 

 the stomachs of some Weddell's Seals they had killed. Four of these 

 had full-grown embryos, which were fully capable of living after they 

 (Jiine on the ice. Even if we should get no other proofs, I think this 

 justifie.s me in putting the breeding-season for Weddell's Seal as September, 

 and this would agree with what I before have said about February being 

 the season of juiirini:. Besides the new fishes, they have also caught some 

 of the broad-headed bottom fishes which are common here. The temperature 

 in the sui-face of the sea where they fished was +28-6 Fahr.,and the new^ 

 sjM-eies f)f fish was caught only about one-half fathom (three feet) below 

 the surface. 



Septrmbcr 14//i. — To-day something of great zoological interest hap- 

 l>ened. Fougt\er found a male White Seal far up in the land (about 

 fiOO metres) under the mountain. As he was very savage and wanted to 

 Htt'ick Fougner when he approached him, he had to return to the hut 

 and cjill Evaus to come to his assistance with a rifle. They brought me 



