During the summer season many of the penguins tliat are not nesting come ashore and spend 

 hours on the beach, a short distance above the water 



In some places it requires a shovel and a couple of hours' digging to collect the eggs of the jackass 

 penguin, while elsewhere, in walking over the ground of a colony, one breaks through into the nest 

 without trying; for unlike the gentoo and rock hopper penguins this bird nests underground 



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