Io6 BROOKLYX INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 5- 
Since South Georgia has been made a political dependency of the 
Falklands, the resident birds have come under the protection of law, bin 
perhaps too late for the king iiengnins because of the impracticability of 
enforcing legal restraint along hundreds of miles of isolated, uninhabited 
coast.* 
We discovered three king penguin colonies, all in the neighborhood 
of Pvgoscelis rookeries, but all on low ground. The .smalle.st colony, 
comjirising only a dozen birds, was on the west shore of Po.s.se.ssion Bay ; 
the two others on the south shore of the Ba>’ of Isles, five kilometers 
apart, with the barrier of Grace Glacier between. The eastern and 
larger of these was situated 1500 meters south of the bay among a barren 
wa.ste of morainic stones. A great bank of nnmelting neve bounded the 
.settlement on the west, while a violent glacial torrent separated it from 
the .sloping edge of Lucas Glacier on the ea.st. In such a gnlch, between 
walls of snow and ice, swept by .sontherh^ gales that de.scended through 
a rift in the mountains, a band of about three hundred and fifty king 
penguins made their home. Four years earlier, according to members of 
the Daisy s crew, the same .settlement had contained a far greater num- 
ber of birds during the breeding .season. 
*A pcngtiiii oil industry is still conducted at Macquarie Island, soTith of New Zealand, but 
apparently without disastrous re.sults owing to the limited numbers of birds which are anmiallv 
killed. 
