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NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sub-family c. Rphcniscince. 

 SPHENISCUS. (Gr. wedge-shaped.) 



Demersus (Lat. submerged], the Cape Penguin. 



The CAPE PENGUIN is very common at the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the Falkland Islands. From the extraordinary 

 sound it produces while on shore, it is called the Jackass 

 Penguin. Darwin gives the following interesting account of 

 this bird : " In diving, its little plumeless wings are used as 

 fins, but on the land, as front legs. When crawling (it may 

 be said on four legs) through the tussocks, or on the side of 

 a grassy cliff, it moved so very quickly that it might readily 

 have been mistaken for a quadruped. When at sea and 

 fishing, it comes to the surface, for the purpose of breathing, 

 with such a spring, and dives again so instantaneously, that 

 I defy any one at first sight to be sure that it is not a fish 

 leaping for sport." 



