100 ZOOLOGICAL LOG OF OMOND HOUSE 



Second haul, about 6 fathoms, sandy mud : several heart-urchins, some molluscs, 

 (including a new species of brachiopod) and abundant worm-tubes. 



Third haul, in similar conditions to second : a small fish, a heart-urchin, and 

 some dead lamellibranch shells. 



Feb. 2nd. Birds : three species of penguins. An albino ringed penguin caught of 

 a very fine white colour ; parasitic insects found oil it. Skuas, nellies, gulls, terns, 

 .shags and Wilson's petrels. 



There being a low tide to-day we went shore-collecting. In Uruguay Cove in pools 

 amongst boulders under the glacier face, we got a good many small amphipods, a few 

 limpets, pycnogons and small orange coloured star-fish. 



In rock pools on the west side of Scotia Bay we got numerous amphipods, a broken - 

 off fixed tunicate, probably only washed up into the pool, several small disc-like 

 coelenterates of the same species as already got (drawn and painted) some were 

 .adherent to the stones and some swimming free in the pools limpets, small molluscs 

 (gasteropods chiefly), small orange-coloured star-fish and copepods. 



Feb. 3rd. Three species of penguins, skuas, Wilson's petrels and several flocks of 

 -Cape pigeons, the first occasion these latter have been seen for a long tinle. 



Feb. 4th. Three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls, terns, Wilson's petrels, 

 Cape pigeons and a flock of snowy petrels the first of these seen for some time and 

 one shag. 



Wilson's petrel : after dark, especially on still nights, they keep up an almost 

 continuous noise all through the night. They make two sorts of noise, first a low 

 whistle, short but repeated at intervals of a few seconds. I found it almost impossible 

 to locate the birds from this note ; one never seems to get any nearer it when trying to 

 follow it up. Secondly, they utter a harsh screaming chuckle, practically the same as 

 that of the snowy petrel. The nearest resemblance I know to it is the noise of the 

 wooden twirling toy, known as the " corncrake." They do not indulge in the peculiar 

 mixture of clucking and cooing that the Cape pigeons do while sitting on their nests. 



Feb. 5th. Three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls, terns, Wilson's and snowy 

 petrels. Was up at Cape pigeon's nest ; youngster still in down and just a little bigger 

 than the young snowy petrels got lately, from which it may be fair to conclude that the 

 .snowy petrels sit about the same length of time as the Cape pigeons. 



Young Weddell seal on The Beach. Female sea-leopard killed on the North 

 Beach : uterus empty ; stomach contained penguin remains. "It was in a half-completed 

 state of moulting. Total length over all, 11 ft. 8^ ins. 



Feb. 6th. Four species of penguins, i.e., the three ordinary species and a 

 single specimen of the crested penguin, a young bird, again caught on The Beach. 

 Skuas, gulls, nellies, terns, Wilson's and snowy petrels. Sea-leopard in Jessie 

 Bay. 



Feb. 7th. Three species of penguins, skuas, nellies, gulls, terns, Wilson's and snowy 

 petrels and shags. A young tern on the beach on the west side of Scotia Bay has 



