ADELIE PENGUINS 



advantage the cliff offers as a shelter from the 

 E.S.E. gales. The same applies to the nesting 

 sites up the cliff", but I am convinced that only the 

 love of climbing can account for the extraordinary 

 positions chosen by some of the birds. Some of 

 the nests are so difficult of access that their 

 occupants, on their way to them, may be seen 

 sliding backwards down the little glazed snow- 

 slopes several times before they accomplish the 

 ascent, whilst in other places they have to jump 

 from one foothold to another along the almost 

 perpendicular cliff: 



Even up these heights a tendency to grouping is 

 seen, though there are a fair number of individuals 

 who, seeming to seek seclusion, make their nests 

 at some distance from the others. I noticed this 

 in some places along the shore, too, where solitary 

 nests were to be seen on isolated patches of 

 shingle. 



When I visited Cape Royds in 1911 I found 

 a couple nesting alone in a cove known as " Black 

 Sand Beach," some half mile from the rookery 

 there. Such isolation as this, however, is very 

 unusual, and was quite a departure from the 

 regular custom of the species. 



In some places at Cape Adare, large rocks some 

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