DOMESTIC LIFE 



recover between his attacks, lying on his breast, 

 with his head on the snow and eyes half closed, so 

 that I thought he was going to die. Each time 

 he got to his feet and staggered at his enemy, the 

 latter rose from the nest and met him, only to 

 drive him back again. When I saw them at about 

 10 P.M. (it was perpetual daylight now) both were 

 lying down, the victor on the nest, the vanquished 

 about five yards off. The next day one bird re- 

 mained on the nest and the other had gone, and I 

 do not know what happened to him. 



In the course of a walk through the rookery 

 considerable diversity in the choice of nesting sites 

 was to be noticed. The general tendency is for 

 the penguins to build their nests close together 

 (within a foot or two of one another) on the tops 

 of the rounded knolls, the lower levels being left 

 untenanted. 



The most thickly populated districts were to be 

 found on the screes immediately below the cliffs. 

 These screes having been formed in the first in- 

 stance by the falling of fragments due to weather- 

 ing of the cliff, their substance is still added to, 

 little by little, as time goes on, and therefore many 

 are killed annually by falling rocks, as is mentioned 

 elsewhere, but weighing against this danger is the 



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