Again, the usual nm of birds was fouM in and about Brialmont Cove 
and s»re niaserous than usual: Storm petrels, Wilson ‘si Cape pigeom} 
Dominican gulls j sheath-bills ( shags) j skuas j a giant petrelj and penguins, 
latter appear to have taken over about all available 
rocks and islets about the Cove and virtually the vbole of the snow-free 
parts of Alcock Island. Tbe penguins are Chlnstraps, the little fellows 
with tb« urge to climb high in this world of ours, Alcock *s difficult and 
precipitous terrain reminds one of Cape Spigot in the Danco-Couvervllle 
Islar^ area, but nowhere nearly so high, only a bit sere than yXi feet, as 
coi^Kired with Spigot's 938» B«"t Alcock mist be much sore densely populated. 
Capt. McDonald, who has reconmiitered Alcock from the air and has landed on 
its shores, thinks it has sore penguins on it than Cape Hallett, with its 
300, OCX), down HcMurdo way. He said he believes it to be about the largest 
penguin rookery that he h&@ ever seen In all his eight years of antarctic 
experieioes . 
At the foot of Alcock 's precipitous slopes, the Captain found a small 
cove that would afford shelter for a small boat. Adjacent weis a piece of 
penguin-free land i^n which one mlgiit biiild without interfering with the 
Chinstrap wey of life, which inelvdes an "awful” lot of steep, uphill 
clli3fi>ing, for they occupy almost every bit of enow-free rock on Alcock, as 
at Spigot, to its very top. Eowever, I would like to see the Alcock Chin- 
straps, as well as those at Cape Spigot, left undisturbed, Anyoi» having 
the urge to study Chlnstraps can do so in Paradise Harbor, living ae did 
A. C, Bogdanovich at the Chilean Station there in 1959-1960 as an observer, 
or even more conveniently at Deception Island where live several hundred 
