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compulsorily, soared about in higher regions than 
the rest. 
On the 15th November we had 4,000 penguin 
eggs secured in salt for reserve provisions. 
PAGODROMA NIVEA ON ITS NEST. 
How different it was to travel on those bright 
nights, instead of having to work in the darkness 
as we did in the winter time. 
Many of the Pagodroma Nivea were about, and 
the air sounded with their original and remarkable 
half-whistling, half-shrieking voices. They did not 
seem to have immediate intentions of settling down | 
to the quiet family life of the season; they were still 
seen to flirt about in pairs in the air, though some 
of them began to repair their old nesting-places in 
cavities of the rocks. Their nests were still in many 
