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behind the Gentoo rookery, antarctic terns were flying about in consiaerable 
ntxsibers, some were nesting* Jack Crowell saw one with a chick (close up, *• 
beauty of this nesting site was the fact that you could walk onto and airoui^ 
it to photograj^ the birds close-up) . 
At Ca^ Tuxen there is a colony of blue-eyed corraorants. 
On our return to the ship from Green Island we tried to get photographs 
of a flock of 30 -U 0 {? SD-30) of these shags sitting on the water quietly 
end in a surprisingly close group, but they proved wary; before we got into 
cffltfortable catnera range, they' dived and scattered* Green Island has a 
considerable ^pulstion of skuas* Jiisaging from the aggressiveness displsyed 
by several of them, they were protecting nests and young. A large colorQr 
of cormorants is also located four miles south of Cape luxen in the Berthelot 
Islands . 
Mosses and lichens were gathered from the several islands and the Cape, 
and Berlesed, An amasing ntud>er of Collepdbola were driven out of a couple 
of handfuls of moss from Green Islai^ (I brought this vial along to show you)* 
At Cape I^acen and more so on Green Island, the moss growth was especially 
luxuriant* Most of the islands, to a greater or lesser extent, are "green as 
grass" on their northern, more or less snow-free, slopes* 
Green Island, the northertmjost of the Berthelots, lives up to its 
advance notices in tte Admiralty's Antarctic Pilot (p* 204, 2nd edit*, 19^8), 
"..*, Green islet has on its northern slopes a luxuriant growth of boss nearly 
four acres in extent with peat up to tliree feet (o m g) in thickness. This 
is by far the largest unbroken patch of vegetation yet found in Antarctica* 
