BIRDS. 



Plate I. 



The Emperor Penguin Rookery at Cape Crozier, from a sketch taken in September, 

 looking eastward along the cliffs of Ross' (treat Ice Barrier. In the foreground a bird 

 is represented holding a living chicken ou its feet, while another is about to take 

 possession of a dead one ; a third is sleeping in the prone position, and on the right 

 a bird is represented sleeping in the more usual, upright, positiijn. 



