Zoological Log of the Summer Station 



"OMOND HOUSE," SCOTIA BAY, SOUTH OKKNKYS 1 

 .1. I! HU:VK\ PIKIK, B.Sc., M.D., CH.B., 



Nov. 27th, 1903. Birds observed : skuas and terns fairly numerous, l>lack-tlin>ated 

 and ringed penguins, shags, a few nellies, black-backed gulls. -n\\\ j -ir.-l- an<l a pair 

 >t' Wil-un'.- [wtrels in the t- ven ing. 



Nor. 28th. Birds observed : skuas, terns, adelia and ringed penguins, -ihngs, noil 

 gulls, one of which in immature plumage was shot, snowy petrels and Wil-.-n- petrels. 



Nov. 29th. Birds observed ; skuas always numerous around the house after dead 

 birds terns, adelia and ringed penguins, shags, nellies, gulls in mature and immature 

 plumage, a second of the latter kind being shot to-day. Snowy petrels numerous alnmt 

 the clifls on the west side >f I'm-jim} ' 



Cape pigeons seen there also for first time for several days. A jwir of Wilson's 

 petrels over Jessie Bay. 



( >ne \Veildell seal on the ice in Uruguay Cove. We dug through the frozen surface 

 of a small pool which has formed on the northern part of The Beach and got about a foot 

 of water: amongst the -t'iu-- at the l><itt<>m we fmmd abundant c-..l]cml>liils, ! in a very 

 livelv condition. These insects may be found under almost any stone. 



Nor. 30th. Birds seen : skuas, gulls, terns, adelia and ringed penguins, shags, 

 nellies, paddies, snowy petrels and Cape pigeons. At Point Davis gulls' and terns' 

 nests; one gull's nest with three eggs, one with two which \ve lifted, and several with 

 one (probably first one already taken). 



Dec. Int. Got embryos of geutoo penguins, 10 to 18 days. A few gentoon are l>old 

 ugh to peck at one in the rookery now, but most will still run from their nest* ; but 

 it is not so with the adelias. who all attack fiercely if one goes amongst them. 



<J nil's nest on beach at Point Martin. One egg had been taken from there about 



From November 27th, 1903. to February 14th, 1904, the Scotia WM abwut at Bueno* Aim and the 

 Falkland Islands coaling and refitting. 



* Itotoma Brveei and Crypiopygut crattui. Both the** new cpecien occur in abundance at the Smith 

 Orkney*. 



