ADELIE PENGUINS 



we were in sore straits for food, and had it not 

 been that at a very late date we collected some 

 ninety old moulting birds on Inexpressible Island, 

 I doubt if we would have seen the sun rise in the 

 next spring. 



At Cape Adare in 1911, half the rookery had 

 departed when we arrived in the autumn. The 

 rest took to the sea in batches some hundreds 

 strong. These parties wandered about the beach 

 and ice-foot in company for some time, then enter- 

 ing the water and swimming northward they were 

 seen no more. 



Those that moulted sometimes remained solitary 

 whilst in the acuter stages, but nevertheless moult- 

 ing parties often were seen looking very miserable, 

 doubtless feeling in their unprotected state the 

 effects of winds which were getting keener and 

 more severe now that the sun was departing. 



When all the youngsters had gone, some thou- 

 sands of old birds still remained, and waited for 

 many days after they had acquired their full 

 plumage before they left. Then these in time 

 disappeared, leaving the rookery empty and desolate. 

 On March 12 I photographed the last party : all 

 black-throated adults. Two days later a couple 

 appeared on the beach, apparently having come 

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