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Mole
1961
Journal
Because of the dark overcast + snow which
fell all day I didn't do any of the picture taking
I had intended to but netted handed
some shine chicks in the shenry + brought
in the younger of the 2 chicks at 72. This
chub is about a week old.
Jan 20 Cape Hallett, Antarctica.
Ketchen was killed + damned in the
morning. Her autopsy is summarized in
the app. account. The most impressive feature
was the fact that both of her tibia had
broken spontaneously & were partly healed, though
all her bones were very fragile. She was a
she it turned out. A round of the shenry
was made in the afternoon + a more
shins put up in the evening.
Jan 21 Cape Hallett, Antarctica.
Snowing heavily in morning, with
a slight breeze blowing. It looked for a
time as if we would get a real blizzard
out of it but it soon let up & snowed
lightly off & on all during the day. Weighed
all of the chicks in the field + collected the
chick food remains from the nest on
this side. Those on the other side have
so little few food remains or pellets that
I can let them go longer without collecting.
Slept out the adult of nest 35, which