26 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF THE SCOTIA 



sea-weed and stones with bryozoa, sertularians, and limpets on them. One stone had a 

 worm tube on it. Nothing in the trap. Copepods were got in a tow-net, through 

 which water was pumped at the dredge-hole. Snowy petrels and sheathbills seen. 



May 29th. Nothing fresh in the dredge except a fish of Notothenia type ; the 

 other animals the same as yesterday. We pumped water through a tow-net to obtain 

 a plankton sample, and caught some copepods. Paddies, snowy petrels and gulls were 

 seen. Mr Bruce saw an immense flock of birds flying over Jessie Bay, which were 

 evidently shags from their colour and size. A Weddell seal was secured near Ailsa 

 Craig for skeleton purposes. 



May 30th. The dredge contained a small octopus, a few pycnogons, three 

 isopods, a polychaete, a sponge, and some sea-weed with the usual epizoa. The 

 trap yielded two fish and a cushion-star. Saw paddies, snowy petrels, shags and 

 gulls. 



May 31st. A large transparent crustacean (Euphausia) was seen by Mr Bruce 

 in the dredge-hole. At 3 P.M. an antarctic petrel was seen flying round the ship. 

 Shags, snowy petrels and paddies. 



June 1st. The dredge contained a fish, two or three gasteropods, some pycnogons, 

 including a ten-legged one, a polychaete, three star-fishes, a cushion-star, a holothurian, 

 two sponges, and the usual bryozoa, sertularians and molluscs on sea-weed. Yesterday 

 paddies, snowy petrels and gulls were seen, as well as to-day. 



June 2nd. To-day's dredge was not so rich ; a small fish, a few pycnogons, 

 one sun-star, bryozoa, sertularians, etc. Many black-backed gulls, a nelly, several 

 paddies and snowy petrels were seen. The gulls were particularly noticeable in 

 emitting their typical cry whilst soaring high. In digging through ice on the beach to 

 a depth of four to five feet at the south-east corner of Omond House, part of a shell, 

 a black-throated penguin's skull, a snowy petrel's wing and some weed were found at 

 the bottom of the ice. Limpet shells were also found amongst stones on the talus 

 of Mossman Peninsula. 



June 3rd. -The contents of the dredge were richer than yesterday, including 

 limpets, lamellibranchs, two species of isopods, some pycnogons, three star-fishes, 

 two sun-stars and the usual epizoa on sea-weed. A Euphausia was also caught 

 in the dredge-hole. Three star-fishes were found on a seal's skeleton which was let 

 down through a hole in the ice on the starboard side of the ship. The trap contained 

 two fish, one of which was a new species, the other of the usual Notothenia type, and 

 three sun-stars. Snowy petrels and sheathbills were seen. 



June ith. The dredge to-day was a fair one ; some pycnogons, two polychaetes, 

 a star-fish, two sun-stars and the usual epizoa on sea-weed and stones. A small 

 trap in the dredge-hole contained two fish and a gasteropod. The trap yielded nine 

 fish. The crew cut a new hole further out in 27 fathoms of water, where the trap was 

 set to-day. Mr Bruce caught three chains of Doliolum in this hole, one of which had 

 a small crustacean attached to it, and he also saw some specimens of Euphausia, 



