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which looked like a miniature \<>t<>t/ .\mil < ii-lii-.n-stant and many am phi pods 



were nl>< i on the caroaaen. 



Went out to point Davis and had a look at the We<l<lell Heals with their young. 

 Brought home a young one. The two mothers whom we had previously deprived of 

 theii voung were still at tin- -mm- place had not taken to tin- water yet. Tin- first 

 one's young was taken on Monday, the 7th inst., and the other one's on the 8th inst. 

 Three or four -no\\y petreN. two nellies and three black-backed gulls were seen. 



*//. 1 l//i. Some Setymla on weed and a sea-urchin with well developed testes were 

 in the dredge. Two flocks of shags, several black-backed gulls, nellies and snowy 

 jM-tivN were seen during the day. The dredge-hole has been blasted for some distance, 

 so that we will not be able to do any more dredging for the present. 1 



Sept. 12th. The baby seal, which we brought to the ship on the 10th inst., is still 

 thriving, though it has not taken nourishment freely ; a little milk was forced down 

 its throat. 



Snowy petrels, nellies, black-backed gulls and shags were seen, and some gentoo 

 penguins landed from Jessie Bay. 



Sej>(. \3th. The same birds seen as yesterday. The seal is getting more 

 sociable and likes to be petted. Pine rigged up a feeding bottle, which, however, 

 baby seal does not understand. 



Sept. 1 4th. The baby seal has at last taken to the bottle. She (the baby is a 

 female) took about a pint of milk, and does not cry so much. Her crying is sometimes 

 very like a human baby's. More gentoo penguins arrived on The Beach from the north. 

 Snowy petrels, black-backed gulls and two shags were seen. 



Sept. 15th. I was too premature in writing yesterday that the seal took to the 

 bottle ; she sucked at it for a very little time, and to-day refused the bottle altogether, 

 so milk was poured down her throat. 



Pirie, from a boat in Uruguay Cove, shot three shags and a black-backed gull. The 

 shags were in splendid condition and had a far better plumage than in the autumn. 

 The cere was very prominent, colour cadmion ; round the eye there was a patch of 

 cobalt colour. A tuft of feathers ornamented the crest of the bird ; the colour of 

 its feet and legs were light scarlet. The artist made a very good painting of its head. 

 The black-backed gull had, besides the yellow of its lower jaw, a patch of crimson on 

 either side ; the gape was also tinged with crimson. Numerous snowy petrels, black- 

 backed gulls, one in its young or mottled plumage, shags, four nellies and two gentoo 

 penguins were seen. In the afternoon I shot two shags. A Weddell seal was also seen 

 in Uruguay Cove close in-shore. Limpets and yellow star-fish were seen on the sea- 

 bottom and one pycnogon frozen in the pan-cake ice. 



Sept. 16th. Hauled up the trap from the hole on the port bow, depth 11 fathoms. 

 In it were four fish (Notothenia), 125 cushion-stars and an isopod. Also hauled up the 



1 At this time we were attempting to blast and cut canal through the floe to the open water beyond, 

 hoping to liberate the ship. 



