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hydrolds, and another type of coelenterate polyp that I cannot at the moraent 
readily place, bryozoans (isose oniffials), ophlurans, holothurlane, clams, two 
caprellld amphi|K3dE - elusive creatures - the only two recovered from any of 
our dredlngs, and ascidiane again, PalE^rland waters, if not the rest of 
Antarctic, is certainly sea-squirt heaven. I liave collected miy over the 
years but never bo many different kinds, so structurally different (external 
appearance) on any previous cruiee. 
Of two sets of the fish traps, the first off the Chilean Base, we got 
nothing but a ''mess," a IQO or more nemertean worms am! several different 
species of anphipode. A large J^lly fish and a ctenophore, "comb- Jelly, " 
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were picked up drifting by in the tidal current. 
With the dip net a lot of algae and amphipods, a large red species 
( Paradoxaine ?) were captured. These could well furnish as^le meals for 
ESihy penguins. I get the idea from the penguin behavior hears. As we were 
working along this stretch of shore several penguins were seen actively 
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diving, duck fashion, beads down, tail up, and when their heads came up above 
water again, working their bills as though they were eating something that 
either tasted good or was satisfying. After a number of such dips, these 
birds, three or four of them, headed out to sect* I did want to have a look 
into these particular penguin stomachs to verify my suspicion that this 
omnipresent and abundant food imterial formed an important part of the penguin 
dietairy. If the, amphi pods are as abundant elsewhere as in the red sea-veefis 
here, they must play a far more important role in the economy of penguin life 
than heretofore realized (or has this side of the penguin dietary already 
been studied bj' someone else?) . 
