BIRD PHOTOGRAPHING ON THE FALKLAND ISLANDS 431 



species which I had not yet seen. Wo 

 landed in a barren-looking- cove and 



Tlie numerous rock hopper penguins and king shags on Kidney Island 

 were apparently not at all averse to having their pictures taken. One does 

 not need a blind to conceal his operations while photographing penguins or 

 shags in the Falklands. A good raincoat, however, is desirable, as sudden 

 snow or liail squalls are likely to drop out of some tlying cloud 



While the greater number of the rocky penguins will move aside for one 

 passing through their colony, there are always some pugnacious individuals 

 that rush boldly forward to hinder or hasten the visitor 



started over tlie rolling liills in the di- 

 rection of tlu' colony. I had made the 

 acquaintance of 

 the pugnacious 

 rociv hoppers and 

 the secretive jack- 

 ass penguins on 

 lldefonso Island 

 to the westward of 

 Cape Horn the pre- 

 ceding summer, 

 but as we neared 

 the first colony of 

 gentoos and the 

 birds 1)egan to 

 innvo leisurely 



away from us, I 

 was impressed at 

 once by the marked 

 difference in their 

 size and the en- 

 tirely different 

 character of their 

 nesting ground. 

 On Ildefonso Is- 

 land one had to se- 

 lect the second or 

 third day of suc- 

 cessive calm days 

 even to land, and 

 Ihen had to climb 

 with careful foot- 

 steps over slippery 

 rocks to the mud- 

 dy cliffs where the 

 two species of 

 penguins nest in 

 tlie thick tussac 

 grass. In the Falk- 

 lands one lands by 

 launch at the 

 wharf from the 

 Koyal Mail steam- 

 ers ; and it is pos- 

 sible to mount a 

 horse, visit the 

 three species of 

 penguins on their 

 nesting grounds, 

 and return the 

 same day to the 



