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15 inches in length, the smallest, of appirently another species, inches. 
A 10-inch notothoniid was caught over the ship's side on a hai^ line. 
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February $, Csdr. Lewis gave me a photo-copy of this asrea, on which he 
had noted the penguin colonies he had seen in the course of two days of 
helicopter reconnaissance flying} he also noted any conapicuoi:^ lichen 
stands that caught his eye — encrusting yellow lichens primrily. The 
flights ranged from Hansen Island northward as far as Challenger Island 
just above Bluff Island, His observations, as entered on the c^iajrts here- 
with, follo\J! He considered as "small" colonies estimated to contain under 
1,000 birds, aiai as '’medium" if the iivaividuals p:'e8ent were estimated to 
nuEfoer from 1,000 to 5>000. 
(1) Hortb enci of Delaite Island, small j^nguin colony. 
(2) Two jrocke, or Islets, south of the largest of the Racovitza Islands, 
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have each smll penguin colonies on them. 
(3) (On the way into the cove in Svend Foyn Harbor in which the wreck 
lies, a locky point to the left has a shag colony on it— half the birds were 
sitting, perhaps better standing, in the sheet of snow above the bare rock 
area on which the rest of the birds stood.) (This is my personal observation 
entered on the Commodore's charts.) 
{!»■) Penguins on rocks and islets ringing Icarus Point, 
(5) And at the western end of Bancroft B'ty nusnerous shag colonies. 
(6) Left ‘‘arm" of Reclua Peninsula on a 500-foot cliff (west of 
the 1270 elevation on the chart) a n®di\jffi-size<l penguin colony. 
(7) Southernmost of the Gaston Islands medium-sized penguin colony. 
(8) Shag and sparse lichen growth on Andree Island in Recess Cove. 
