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The rare Campbell cormorant. 



Other large birds characteristic of Campbell Island are the cormorant 

 and two species of penguins — the rock-hopper and the yellow-eyed 

 penguin. In a sail round the bay there is no missing the white-belhed 

 cormorant, sitting about on the rocks. But what is an Antarctic zoological 

 expedition without penguins, preferably in large flocks? In this respect, 

 Campbell Island was no risapointment, either. A colony of rock-hoppers 

 at the foot of Mount Paris on the western side of the island is estimated to 

 comprise half a million of these droll caricatures of man. The rather 

 severe "evening-dress" plumage of these birds is relieved by bristling 

 yellow feathers behind red eyes. With legs together they take metre-long 

 hops from rock to rock, as though in high spirits, their small wings stand- 

 ing out behind like fluttering dress tails. In Perse\^erance Harbour I saw 

 the yellow-eyed penguin. We had gone in to the coast in our motor-boat 

 to have our lunch when a pair of the gay fellows appeared. We found 

 their young in the Dracophyll scrub behind. At this time of the year they 



