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A NATURALIST ON THE " CHALLENGER. 



adopted slightly different habits from those of the representatives 

 of the species at Tristan da Cunha. 



Most interesting, however, by far, amongst all rookeries of 

 penguins which I have seen, was one of King Penguins (Apte- 

 nodytes longirostris), which I met with a little further along the 

 shore. The rookery was on a space of perfectly flat ground of 

 about an acre in extent. It was divided into two irregular 

 portions, a larger and smaller, by some grassy mounds. The flat 

 space itself had a filthy black slimy surface ; but the soil was 

 trodden hard and flat. About two-thirds of the space of one of 

 the portions of the rookery, the larger one, was occupied by 

 King Penguins, standing bolt upright, with their beaks upturned, 

 side by side, as thick as they could pack, and jostling one 



another as one disturbed 

 them. In the figure the 



birds' heads are drawn 

 as if held horizontally. 

 This is unnatural, the 

 head and neck should be 

 stretched out vertically, 

 quite straight, with the 

 tip of the beak pointed 

 directly upwards. 



The King Penguins 

 stand as high as a man's 

 middle, they are distin- 

 guished at once not only 

 by their size, but by two 

 narrow streaks of bright 

 orange yellow, one on each 

 side of the glistening white 

 throat. 



Penguins were to be 

 seen coming from and 

 going to the sea from the 



KING PENGUIN. APTENOB.TES LONGIKOSTK.S. ^^ ^ g^g^ an d 



not in companies like the Crested Penguins. The King Penguins, 

 when disturbed, made a loud sound like " urr-vrr-urr" They 



