96 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF OMOND HOUSE 



One Weddell seal (male) on the North Beach. 



Jan. lith. All usual birds seen about except Cape pigeons. A female Weddell 

 seal shot on the North Beach ; uterus and stomach empty. A whale seen blowing 

 out in Jessie Bay, plunging like a grampus. Got another Wilson's petrel's egg, a 

 dead young bird and an old unhatched egg in same hole. Killed young gull to-day ; 

 it was dying, and had been unable to stand for nearly a week ; it ate heartily up till 

 last night. 



Jan. 15th. All usual birds seen about. At Point Davis no young terns to be 

 seen and only one egg left, while only two young gulls visible. I think the majority 

 were hidden. At Ailsa Craig a great number of ringed penguins, also paddies, Cape 

 pigeons, Wilson's petrels, skuas, shags and nellies. The last three species were not 

 found nesting there. 



Whale (? grampus) seen blowing near Point Davis. Weddell seal shot on the North 

 Beach ; it contained an embryo. Great numbers of compound ascidians floating about 

 the Bay. 



Traps lifted : star-fish, cushion-stars, large nemerteans, a few amphipods, two 

 isopods, one with a parasitic worm attached ; but worm lost in bottling. 



Jan. 16th. All usual birds seen about. 



Jan. 17 th. Down at large rookery. Caught two more crested penguins in exactly 

 the same place as last one. Young adelias are beginning to lose their down. The 

 rookeries are in a greater mess than they have ever been. The dirt and smell are dis- 

 gusting. Young paddies with rather patchy dark brown down. Skuas not yet hatched. 



One sea-leopard seen in the water ; numerous Weddell seals on beach. On The 

 Beach at the house got part of a compound ascidian with what are, I suppose, young 

 attached round spikelike balls like heads of sea-kale. 



Jan. 18th. Got young Cape pigeon for skin, five days old. Got also three more 

 Wilson's petrels' eggs and one adult for skin. All other usual birds seen about. A 

 female sea-leopard killed on North Beach, 14 feet 8|- inches long; uterus empty; 

 stomach contained only fish remains and lamellibranch shells. 



Jan. 19th. Birds observed : all twelve common species except Cape pigeons and 

 snowy petrels. 



Jan. 20th. Birds : three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls, shags, Wilson's 

 petrels and terns. 



Lifted traps nothing but star-fish. Had long dredge haul up-hill and caught 

 nothing but one limpet. 



Jan. 21st. Three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls and Wilson's petrels. 

 Got several tape-worms from intestine of ringed penguins. They are short tape-worms 

 with a cyst, developing in the outer layers of the gut in which the head of the tape is 

 embedded whilst the body hangs out into the main gut, chiefly near the pylorus. 



Jan. 22nd. Birds : three species of penguins, nellies, skuas, gulls, terns and 

 Wilson's petrels. 



