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5tt- A 10-inch notothoniid was caught over the ship's side on a hand line. 
February 9 , Cmdr. Lewis gave me a photo-copy of this area, on which 
he had noted the penguin colonies he had seen in the course of two days 
of helicopter reconnaissance flying; he also noted any conspicuous lichen 
stands that caught his eye -- encrusting yellow lichens primarily. The 
flights ranged from Hansen Island northward as far as Challenger Island 
just above Bluff Island. His observations as entered on the charts here¬ 
with, follow. He considered as "small" colonies estimated to contain 
under a 1000 birds, and as "medium" if the individuals present were esti¬ 
mated to number from 1000 to 5000 . 
(1) North end of Dalaite Island, small penguin colony. 
(2) Two rocks or islets, south of the largest of the Racovitza Is¬ 
lands have each small penguin colonies on them. 
(3) (On the way into the cove in Svend Foyn Harbor in which the 
wreck lies, a rocky point to the left has a shag colony on it -- half 
the birds were sitting, perhaps better standing, in the sheet of snow 
above the bare rock area on which the rest of the birds stood.) (This 
is my personal observation entered on the Commodore's charts.) 
()+) Penguins on rocks and islets ringing Icarus Point. 
(5) and at the western end of Bancroft Bay numerous shag colonies. 
( 6 ) Left "arm" of Reclus Peninsula on a 500 -foot high cliff (west 
of the 1270 elevation on the chart) a medium-sized penguin colony. 
( 7 ) Southernmost of the Gaston Islands medium-sized penguin colony. 
( 8 ) Shags and sparse lichen^ growth on Andree Island in Recess 
Cove. 
