SCOTIA H\\ -.1 III MKKNKVS. 1904 



although it" tin- dog was near l>y they pur-iied him more rm-r^ftH ally, swooping over 

 him and hitting him a ^-"i -mm k with their feet. Thev tl\ <>\<r jx-ople in the Mine 

 wav lnit IH-MT ap|N-nr to hit anyone. If one stand- at the nest, thev keep tlvin;: around 

 fora few minuti-s hut -oon come within a yard or two. A yminji jjull. still complet.-|\ 

 d..wny. ran away from me and took readily to the water. -\MI in^ with case. 



( \,. r IIKI \\ ,-ddell .<wals on the beach on the west side of Scotia Bay. In otwerviir..' 

 clo-.-ly tln-ir coats one find- th.-re is a great variation, no two being alike, and they seem 

 to lx- in all -tau'c- <>f chanu'ini: coats ; som<- f\'ii have a complete old coat, of whirh tin- 

 . an i-a-il\ IM- piilh-d nut. Thi-n ajrain the colour varies greatly, and ajwrt fnm 

 actual variation- it differ* acconling to your point of \ii\v, i.e. t whrtln-r you look from 

 tor;ird with tin- li<- <>t the hair, abeam, or from aft for'ard a-am-t the grain. \Vln-n 

 looking aft, and to a less extent abeam, there is a silvery sort >) >hrrn which is <jiiit<- 

 aw ant in it they arc viewed from aft. Some few were of an almost uniform creamy 

 colour with a yellowish tinge, sometimes a greenish yellow, and in two cases a hrowni-h 

 yellow. In practically every one the dorsal aspect is darker than the ventral. 

 Mottling i-* practically always visilile. but where the old coat is complete it may IM? 

 \<-i\ indistinct. The amount anil size of the mottling also varies very much and 

 may take the fonn of small spots or of large patches, (tern-rally speaking however, 

 it comes to be light spots with a dark ground dorsally and dark spots with a li^ht 

 L' roii nd \ nit rally. The mottling is best seen ventrally and about the tli|)|x-rs, as 

 these are the first places to cast the old coat; a broad dorsal rid-'- is the last 

 region to change. The coloration of the new coat is on an average a dark slatey-grey 

 in the dark parts and a yellowish white in the light, but the exact -hade- vary very 

 much in their intensity. 



V ,; many of these seals showed scars only one bad case was seen and that was 

 on a this year's seal, which had a large bare patch over the liack of the skull (an 

 unusual situation), extending the whole width of the skull about 5 inches in width at 

 its greatest and it hail one eye badly injured. A. large proportion, both male and 

 female, have sores (now mostly healed) about the genital organs. 



Jan. 30th. A male sea-leopard shot on the North Beach. Length, 8 feet 11^ 

 inches ; stomach contained only a great quantity of small crustaceans. 



Jan. 3\st. Three species of penguins; young adelias now pretty abundant and 

 many have not yet lost all their down. Nellies, gulls, skuas, terns and Wilson's petrels. 



Numerous whales seen blowing to the north-west. Two Weddell seals on The 

 Beach. 



/ /-. \*t. Three species of penguins, skuas, gulls, nellies, terns, shags and Wilson - 

 petrels. 



Had three hauls of the dredge in the eastern part of the head of Scotia Bn\ . 



First haul, 12 to 15 fathoms, shingle, weed and mud : star-fish, one heart -urchin, a 

 large ebaetopod and an annelid tul>e, some limpets, sea-spiders, and small gasteropods 

 and am phi pods. 



