Jan 14 of breeding skuas to get an idea of how skua numbers VIZ a mis penguin comp- ared with those at Hallett; also idea of tuning cycles to compare w. Hallett. I took the S. half of the beach + Don the N. I walked the beach to the bluff, climbed it up a broad shelf, a possible skua nest area + returned in a line 200 yds. Nor my first traverse results were astonishing. There were no breeding skuas at all though many non-breeders. Don came back with the same report. Another traverse through the central portion of the penguinery produced the same results. Then w. Pr. Lershol (Sp.? Don + I climbed up the hillside. Here we found our first nests widely scattered located on outcrops. We climbed gradually from prospective nests to prospective nest + reached approximately 750 to 800 feet elevation. From here we so no signs of skuas above + instead of continuing we proceeded along the face of the bluff scanning down for more nests + descended along the N. edge for large hillside colony. Pr. Lershol had previously climbed pathway up + along an area V. of this one we had covered + found no