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WILD NOEWAY. 
March 1 5th. —Fulmars and Tysties plentiful, some 
of latter black. Ivory Gull seen, first this year. 
March 1 3th. —Sunlight touched house for first time 
since September. Shot thirty Tysties for food. They 
are not bad eating. 
March 23rd. —Snowy Owl seen. It had killed a 
ryper and was eating it. The last was seen on 
Nov. 2nd. 
March 2 6th. —Two Glaucous Gulls seen, first this 
year. 
March 28th. —Little Auks seen and heard, also the 
first this year. Glaucous Gulls again seen, and Snowy 
Owl. We now go to bed at 10.30 by daylight. 
Temperature in March—max. 32°; min., minus 35°; 
mean 5*05° F. Weather generally fine and clear, with 
occasional gales. 
During the winter, lamplight was required all day 
for exactly one hundred days. 
April 1st. —A walrus seen off Dane’s Gat. 
April bth. —Brunnich’s Guillemots, and Eiders seen 
for first time this spring ; also Ivory and Glaucous 
Gulls, Fulmars, Tysties and Little Auks abundant. 
Killed a bear at second glacier : a male, fat, with seal- 
remains in stomach. 
April 1 7th. —Little Auks crying from all the hills 
around house, and Guillemots heard on the cliffs of 
Amsterdam Island. 
April 18th. —Two Kittiwakes seen for first time. 
April 2Qth. —Saw walrus ; killed two big, three 
small seals. 
April 27th.— Snow-buntings arrived. Walrus seen. 
April 28th. —Piebald fox seen. The Seggur is 
