Meley 1961 Hydrurga leptonyx. Jan 30 Several (2) sightings of 4 leopard seals have been made in the past week & are recorded in the daily Journal. Today's observation are worth separate treatment. I was awakened at 2.54 today by one of the aerographers who had seen a leopard seal eating penguins. Here is what had happened. He was standing a few feet from shore near the Bio fleet. The ice was packed in pretty tight, leaving a narrow band of open water along shore. There were penguin adults & chicks swimming & on the ice. He saw a number of penguins get out of the water in some disarray then suddenly the leopard head appeared 30 feet off shore grabbed a penguin standing on the edge of a low-lying ice flow & disappeared. The penguin was grabbed around its middle. The flow was 12-15 feet higher than the water. The seal was not near to eat the penguin; later, the seals head again emerged with a penguin in its mouth. Kreiger thought this was a second penguin taken. The seal disappeared. It was when Douglas & I were called. When I arrived it had already taken a third, a chick. It was not seen to take the one but simply emerged with it in its mouth. For 15 or 20 minutes the seal played with the carcass, rolling over & over, leaving it floating submerging & reappearing to grab the