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behind the Gentoo rookery, antarctic terns vere flying about in considerable 
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numbers, some vere nesting. Jack Crowell saw one with a chick C clos > up, - 
beauty of this nesting site was the fact that you could vails onto and around 
it to photograph the bird© close*-up) • 
At Cape Tuxen there is a colony of blue-eyed cormorants. 
On our return to the ship from Green Island ve tried to get photographs 
of a flock of 30 -bo {•? 20 - 30 ) of these shags sitting on the water quietly 
and in a surprisingly close group, but they proved vary; before ve got into 
comfortable camera range, they dived and scattered* Green Island has a 
considerable population of skuas. Judging from the aggressiveness displayed 
by several of thorn, they vere protecting nests and young. A large colony 
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of cormorants is also located four nilee south of Cape Tusen in the Berthelot 
Islands. 
Konses and lichens were? gathered from the several islands and the Cape, 
and erleaed. An amazing number of Collorbola vere driven out of a couple 
of handfuls cf moss from Green island (I brought this vial along to show you) • 
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