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March 1
Lockroy from. Base A Hut:
[[image: sketch showing landscape of Lockroy as seen from Base A Hut. Labeled as follows - 
"Snow free [[strikethrough]] right [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] left [[/insertion]] arm of Bay
Gentoos were all over to top 
thick before, now only scattered" on upper stretch of land;
"Small id" on island in front of large piece of land;
"ship" on sketch of ship, to right of land;
[[circled text, with arrow leading to right of ship]] "Skuas were as before in numbers on bluff above Hut - Shags on rocky head-land coming in from N. in Neumayer channel on way to anchorage";
"rocks to right" on small island in center;
"rocks & islets to right looking out from hut" in bay, center right;
"islet = Blackbacked gulls" on larger island, lower right. ]]

Arthur Harbor is place for close by Adelie Colonies, but only Adelies. (Which are a well worked over species - because of its presence in McMurdo in such great nos. This numerousness [[insertion]] (abundance) [[/insertion]] is duplicated by Chin straps at Cape Spigott, and at Alcock & I believe up by square Bay = Suspiros on East side Peninsula. 

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March 1 
Gentoos in Lockroy and Adlies in [[strikethrough]] Port [[/strikethrough]] Arthur Harbor about gone just a scattering about, and lonesome looking ones at that. At Hut [[strikethrough]] point [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] land [[/insertion]] or landing (Base N) saw [[underlined]] penguin [[/underlined]] foot prints in the snow, and up in bluff by ponds [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] found dozen or two forlorn looking "Adelies" the makers of the footprints.
Arthur Harbor [[lines]] Adelies
Weather bad all day rather rough ice had drifted in made landing difficult (much same at Base A) where is snowed whole time) Lake of Base N. Frozen over ditto pools on bluff above Hut, only a dozen or two at most Adelies left [[circled]] * [[/circled]] Skuas still in force but not so many Black backed gulls. Wilson's ^[[insertion]] storm [[/insertion]] petrels? Giant petrels, yes. I did not get desired flight over Arthur Hbr. because of thick weather, Did get another muddy dredge haul, & had partial success with boat dredge , needed weighting. Clamss again, without weight drum did not sink so deep and only got tops of dozen large clam.
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[[circled]] * [[/circled]] Before we saw these fellows had to climb bluff, they were sitting on its seaward edge, forlorn looking as H; I had noticed tracks in snow from sea to hut, & hut toward lake and up hill. If I had not gone up to pools would have missed them.
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Got several dozen kill from deck this a.m. where they had been washed or blown also and by heavy ^[[insertion]] sheets [[/insertion]] spray.
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One was swimming about in pocked of water under flush deck handle [[image]]. quite something rest were dead some mashed from being walked on.