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January 18-20, 19^3 
Marguerite Bay area - Adelaide Island, Base T, Avian Islai^, hothera Point 
fhe ice fields throu^ which we passed getting here had quite a nuctoer 
of seals on ice cakes here and there* Mostly, if not all, Weddels, I take 
it* Boiae said they saw a leopard seal, but I saw none that quite fitted 
the description given. 
Seals must be plentiful in this area} it was said that about 500 a 
year are killed for dog food &tA station mess* 
At all places the "usiml" birds, mrgr still nesting here: Adelie pen- 
guins, skuas, blackbaeked (Dominican) gulls, blue-eyed shags, and a giant 
petrel} at Rothera Point also, antarctic terns. 
Mosses and lichens were collected at each place; from them mitea and 
sia-ins-tails were Berlesed; got about three different species of insects. 
From a fresh-water pool on Avian Island a few fairy shri^ (Branchi- 
rwjctu) were dipped with an empty beer can lying about (Tom Berg, coll.) . 
Freeh-water and marine algae were collected; and at Bothera Point red 
and green enow al^e as well. 
ber of nec^rtean worms, smphipods, 2 species of starfish; 3 SBiall sea urchins 
these last at Rothera Point where the worms asid as^phlpods also appeared in 
the traps . 
Dead limpet shells left by the gulls whose principal food are limsssts 
seemed to be scattered about everywhere, scstie with serpulid worm shells 
attached . 
