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about. The question was raised, could they he fur seals? There was no 
chance to investigate. 
In the lifted traps, 6 fish were found ijy to 13§- inches on length, 
half a dozen starfish, and a number of red amphipods. 
March ^ - Potters Cove: 
Tnis forenoon ashore, mosses, lichens, clumps of grass, and samples 
of the marine algae that had been thrown up on the beach were collected. 
Berlesed the mosses; later when I took moss and grass out of the bag in 
which they had been place, few insects (flies?) dropped in the pan over 
which I was working, and were quickly bottled. 
There were several crab-eaters hauled out on the beach. Gentoo and 
Chinstraps were to be seen but in very limited numbers, a few of each 
at most, and fledglings at that. Aslo noted were Dominican gulls, skuas 
Wilson's storm petrels, and two birds that Capt. McDonald said were An¬ 
tarctic petrels or perhaps Giant Petrels. Lenton in his report listed 
Sheath-bills, but we saw none. 
The dredge haul of this day, in Potters Cove, in 19 fms. mud bottom 
produced a fine lot of mud dwelling, tube building worms, if anything 
larger and "handsomer" than those we got off Ardley Island but of the 
same species surely, the mollusks, likewise, were of the same species 
as yesterday, but the sponges, hydroids and echinoderms present in the 
haul of the day before we failed to find; did get an alcyonarian though. 
After a, morning flight over the area, Capt. McDonald remarked that 
Potters Cove seems to have about everything: the necessary piedmont 
