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ciently hard}'' to admit of their being turned out of doors 

 and made to shift for themselves like the pheasant. 



There are several other species besides those enumerated 

 above, but they are all alike in this respect that they refuse 

 to be made to minister to the wants of human kind. 



THE GULLS. 



This group is not so numerously represented in British 

 America as at home, but two genera and two species are 

 found in it. 



Family — L aridiC. 



Genus — 1. Lanis. L. dot)iinicanus. Falkland Island Gull. 

 2. A no us. A. stolid us. Noddy. 



Both the Falkland Island Gull and the Noddy are 

 southern species, and although the latter extends across the 

 whole of the Southern Pacific, it is more frequent towards 

 the west than the east, and properly comes under considera- 

 tion in our next and concluding section. 



THE PENGUINS. 

 Several kinds of Penguins belonging to the 



Family — SpJienicidiv. 



Genus — L Aptenodytes. A. pennanti. Falkland Island 



Penguin. 



2. Pygoscelcs. P. tivniatus. Gentos Penguin. 



3. SpJicniscus. S. inegallanicus. Jackass Penguin. 



4. Eudjptis. E. cJirysocoma. Rock Hopper 



Penguin, 



are found in different parts of the British Empire, but as it 



