18 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF THE SCOTIA 



We shot a skua, and we saw several others, as well as gulls, snowy petrels, nellies, 

 sheathbills, Cape pigeons and an immense flock of shags flying northwards in more or 

 less V-shaped groups. After breakfast we went along the south-west shore to a big 

 gentoo rookery at Point Martin, where we saw a few ringed penguins and three black- 

 throated ones among them, two of which latter were secured. Mr Bruce brought a 

 young adelia (throat quite white) and two geutoos from the west shore. Sheathbills 

 still continue tame and hop about, sometimes on one leg, picking up refuse. Had middle- 

 sized dredge 1 out this morning in the same place. Our catch for the three days includes 

 two species of fish, a large soft spiny tunicate, several specimens of lamellibranchs, a 

 few gasteropods, including one large limpet, brachiopods, pycnogons, three or four species 

 of crustaceans, large nemerteans, several specimens of " worms," about four or five species 

 of star-fish, several sea-urchins, about three species of holothurians and several species of 

 sponges. Cuthbertson painted a small fish, a polychaete, a star-fish, a holothurian, a 

 sponge and the eye and feet of a young adelia. 



April Wth. Had a dredge down again in the same place and secured several species 

 of molluscs, pycnogons, isopods, and some amphipods, besides a polychaete and three or 

 four other species of " worms," some large nemerteans, star-fishes and several sponges. 

 The same kind of birds were observed as yesterday, with the exception of Cape pigeons. 

 Shags were seen in flight to-day over the open water in Jessie Bay. A nelly was shot 

 and a male Weddell seal was secured this morning ; the contents of its stomach consisted 

 of fish, fish bones and otocysts, and molluscs. Ribbon worms were also found in its 

 stomach. After lunch visited a batch of seals (eleven in number, all Weddells) which 

 were lying on the ice a few hundred yards from the ship. They allowed us to get quite 

 close, and would not budge until we forced them to do so by striking them hard with 

 a stick, when they would wriggle away until out of breath, then turn on their backs, 

 raise their heads and look at us sleepily. Their mode of progression on ice is by 

 hunching their backs, then stretching as far forward as possible, and bringing their 

 hind flippers up to repeat the movement. 



April \\th. A trap lowered yesterday afternoon down a seal hole some distance 

 away from the ship was hauled up twice to-day ; nothing but fish secured in it. The 

 dredge to-day brought up star-fishes, the usual molluscs, worms and crustaceans. Not so 

 many birds to-day, probably on account of the weather which was misty and mild. 



April 12th. A new species of isopod, 2 two small fish, brittle stars, sea-urchins and 

 numerous large nemerteans were got in the dredge to-day. Yesterday and to-day were 

 rather misty days, and only penguins, paddies, skuas, snowy petrels and Cape pigeons 

 were seen. From the trap some ten fishes, some star-fishes and two isopods were 

 collected. A skua was shot yesterday and another one to-day. 



April lith. Only one fish and a pycnogon were obtained in the trap. From the 



1 The dredge was hauled in the same place twice each day until October, and though on identically the 

 same ground continued to bring up not only an abundance of specimens, but, from time to time, new species. 

 ' Olyptonotus acutus. 



