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mens. Originally very savage and pugnacious, this bird be- 

 came quite tame and docile. He would follow the gardener 

 about in the most persistent manner to be fed. After he had 

 settled down to the new conditions of things he took up his 

 quarters in the kennel with a young Gordon setter. During 

 the heat of the day he would take refuge in the kennel, coming 

 abroad in the cool of the evening and during the early morn- 

 ing. He lived on terms of perfect amity with the dog, for 

 whom at times he testified his affection by gently pecking 

 him all over the body with his bill, an attention which the 

 sagacious animal seemed quite to appreciate. 



Eudyptes sclateri. (Sclater's Penguin.) 



The local distribution of the Penguins, like that of the 

 Petrels, as determined by their breeding-grounds, is very 

 curious. So far as I can make out at present, Eudyptes 

 chrysocome is found exclusively on Antij)odes Island, E. 

 pacJiyrJiyncJms on the Snares, and occasionally on the New 

 Zealand coast, E. sclateri on the Auckland Islands and 

 also on Antipodes Island. Aptcnodytes longirostris and Eu- 

 dyptes chrysolopJnts appear to be confined to the Macquarie 

 Islands, where Pygoscelis tccniatus is also to be found. 



This Penguin is conspicuously larger than E. pachy- 

 rliynckns. The golden facial streak commences near the 

 angle of the mouth, which is surrounded with a bare mem- 

 brane as in E. chrysoloplins, although not to the same ex- 

 tent. The irides are reddish-brown, and the legs and feet 

 flesh- white. 



Eudyptes chrysocome. (The Tufted Penguin.) 



Writing of one of this family Mr. Gould says : "Its powers 

 of progi-ession in the deep are truly astonishing. It bounds 

 through this element like a porpoise, and uses its short fin- 

 like wings as well as its feet to assist it in its progress ; its 

 swimming powers are, in fact, so great that it stems the 

 waves of the most turbulent seas with the utmost facility, 

 and during the severest gale descends to the bottom, where, 

 among beautiful beds of coral and forests of seaweed, it 

 paddles about in search of crustaceans, small fish, and marine 

 vegetables, all of wdrich kinds of food were found in the 

 stomachs of those I dissected. A considerable portion of the 

 year is occupied in the process of breeding and rearing the 

 young, in consequence of its being necessary that their progeny 

 should acquire suflBcient vigour to resist the raging of that 

 element on which they are destined to dwell, and which I 

 believe they never again leave till they in turn seek the land for 

 the purpose of reproduction.'' 



A singular confirmation of Mr. Gould's vie\Y is supplied by 



