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the Chinstraps must he to a,vail themselves of this high and steep-sided 
peak to colonize its uttermost heights 938 feet above the sea! Most of 
the the road upwards for those that had not settled on the foreshore 
was over a small steep-to snow field lying shoreward of the hare crest 
of the "saddle" between the peak of the Cape and the ice sheet or cap 
further to the north of it. 
# 27-63 Two dredge hauls were made on February 5; the first at the Base 0, 
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Danco Island, in 4l fms; the second at the anchorage in Errera, Channel 
nearer Couverville in 46 fms. At both the bottom was more or less rocky 
and very much alike in their sampling of the channel bottom animal life: 
Echinoderms predominated, many ophiurans, a few starfish, and a dozen or 
more red sea-urchins. In the second haul were several forms of animal 
life not found in the first, a .large nereid worm, a number of bryozoan 
fragments, and what made me want to let out a cheer a hippolytid shrimp, 
the first and, as it proved to be later, the only decapod crustacean 
taken on this cruise. Two white starfish came up on the anchor at the 
first of our anchorages of this day. A small silver-sided fish, also 
unique in our collections, 6 inches long, apparently dropped by some bir, 
h y _ we were 
was picked up on Couverville while ^ jt# ashore surveying a possible site. 
No really suitable site for a, station of any size seems available either 
here or at Cape Spigot unless one wants to bed-down with the penguins. 
The possibility of finding space enough for some small shelter on the 
natural breakwater on the east side of Couverville was mentioned above. 
The only need would be for penguin studies, the marine fauna would be a 
job for a vessel here abouts, and Chinstraps might be more conveniently 
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