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snow field behind the Gentoo rookery, Antarctic terns were flying about 
in considerable numbers, 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 around it to photograph the birds close-up). 
At Cape Tuxen there is a colony of blue-eyed cormorants. 
On our return to the ship from Green Island we tried to get photographs 
of a flock of 30-40 (? 20-30) of these shags sitting on the water quietly 
and in a surprisingly close group, but they proved wary; before we got into 
comfortable camera range, they dived and scattered. Green Island has a 
considerable population a£ skuas. Judging from the agressiveness displayed 
by several of them, they were protecting nests and young. A large colony 
of cormorants is also located 4 miles south of Cape Tuxen in the Berth- 
elot Islands. 
Mosses and lichens were gathered from the several islands and the 
Cape, and berlesed. An amazing number of Collembola were driven out of a 
couple of handfuls of moss from Green Island (I brought this vial along to 
show you). 
At Cape Tuxen and more so on Green Island, the moss growth was especi¬ 
ally 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 northern-most of the Berthelots, lives up to its 
advance notices in the Admiralty's Antarctic Pilot (p. 204, 2nd edit, 1948) 
".Green islet has on its northern slopes a luxuriant growth of moss 
nearly 4 acres in extent with peat up to 3 feet (o m g) in thickness. 
