58 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF THE SCOTIA 



the rookery sitting on prominent rocks, doubtless on the look-out for dead penguins or 

 broken eggs. Several of these paddies allowed me to get within six feet of them with- 

 out showing any concern, and even then they only walked away ; they seemed to be 

 very unwilling to fly. One paddy would only run when I had shoved him with my 

 stick. Several penguins of all three kinds seen travelling on the floe at different times 

 of the day. 



A dead baby seal was found beyond the big rookery, probably two or three days 

 old. Its brain especially had been eaten by nellies. 



Nov. 18th. Jessie Bay and Uruguay Cove open again with a southerly wind, and 

 many penguins on the floe. In the main, they seem to go to the water in the early 

 morning and return in evening, but parties of them come and go in addition at all times 

 of the day. Stragglers and couples are often to be seen, but more generally they travel 

 in flocks of six or eight, or thirty or forty, and these flocks may be all of one species, or 

 two or even three species will be found together. At the small rookery the nests 

 which have a new-laid egg had their first egg on the 15th. The gentoos are daily 

 becoming more courageous, and every day a larger number have to be removed from 

 their nests to enable me to get at their eggs. 



1 noticed a ringed penguin to-night, when pursued by the cook, moving along by a 

 series of short quick jumps instead of scuttling on its belly, as is their more usual custom. 



The usual skuas, gulls, snowies, paddies and terns were seen, and also one nelly. 

 No nests, other than penguins', were visited. 



Nov. 19th. Skuas and gulls about the ship but not in such great numbers as 

 usual. A few paddies at the ship and more at the rookery. At Point Davis, I got 

 eight gulls' eggs and three terns' eggs. The gulls' eggs were found, three in one nest, 

 two each in two nests and one in another nest. The gulls flew away and left their 

 nests as I approached. The terns build no nest but lay their solitary egg on any flat 

 earthy crevice in the rocks ; others lay among limpet-shells, which must be brought 

 there by birds in summer. The terns also flew away, but betrayed the whereabouts of 

 their egg by hovering in the air uttering a loud scream. At the big rookery the ringed 

 penguins have not yet laid, and the other birds' nests were not visited. At the small 

 rookery nests of 16th have now a second egg, and a few nests have three eggs, in which 

 case an interval of only two days seems as a rule to elapse between the third and 

 second egg. 



Nov. 20th. Skuas, gulls and two nellies at the ship. Cape pigeons at Uruguay 

 Cove. Many skuas at the house wrangling over penguin carcases. They allow one 

 within ten to twenty feet without showing any alarm. Also a number of skuas resting 

 on the North Beach and others bathing off floes. At the small rookery all eggs of the 

 16th, and a large number of the 17th, have now a second egg. The skuas do not seem 

 to get many eggs from the adelias, but on the other hand, the loss of eggs among the 

 gentoos, particularly the outlying ones, is great. 



I saw one ringed penguin wandering through the small rookery as if in search of 



