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Penguins were seen on November 30th, and December 1st and 2nd, 1903, in 

 57-52 S., as noted in a former section. 



NOTE. I take this opportunity of placing on record some observations of the bird- 

 life of the seas between the Falkland Islands and Graham Land, taken from the log 

 kept by Dr Bruce when naturalist on the whaler Balama on her voyage of 1892-3, in 

 the months of December and January. 



A remarkable incident of the voyage occurred on December 16th, 1892, when birds, 

 especially Cape Pigeons (Daption capensis], but also Blue Petrels (? Halobiena) and 

 " Molliemauks," thronged literally in myriads over the sea, throughout the day, forming 

 a spectacle never to be forgotten, as Dr Bruce informs me. The previous and following 

 days these species were not observed in any large numbers. "Blue Petrels'"' were seen 

 in small numbers until the Baliena was approaching Graham Land, but were not seen 

 in the vicinity of this land or the adjacent islands. Daption capensis continued to be 

 present throughout the voyage. 



Pagodroma nivea was observed from December 20th onward, after ice had been 

 encountered. 



Ossifraga gigantea was also recorded (including several white examples) in the 

 neighbourhood of Graham Land, also Chionis alba and terns of some species. Several 

 large albatroses (Diomedea exulans) were seen two days after the Bal&na left Port 

 Stanley for the south. 



Stormy Petrels (? Oceanites oceanicus) were present in small numbers throughout 

 the voyage. 



An account of the Penguins observed in the vicinity of Erebus and Terror Gulf, 

 on the voyage of the Balzena, is given in an article by Dr W. S. Bruce entitled 

 "Antarctic Birds, I.," in Knowledge, xvii. pp. 208-210 ; and of the sister ship Active, 

 by C. W. Donald, M.B., in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1895, pp. 170-176. 



