Antartica field notes, v1468
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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