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Soitthern Cross. 



January, the period of incubation lasting from thirty-one to thirty- 

 four days. When we left Cape Adare, on the 2nd of February, 

 although most of the young birds had completely lost their down, and 

 had their full feathers, with the exception of the black ones on the 

 throat, there were still very many young and tiny ones, only about a 

 fortnight old. They seem to vary a good deal in the time they 

 take to develop ; for, even when we left Cape Adare, there were still 

 some of the previous year's birds with white or partly white throats, 

 and I took some on board with me, but was unable to skin them. 



ADELIA I'liNLiUINS ON TUKIll NESTS. 

 {By permissidH of Sir Gcurge. Netvncs, Bai-t.) 



The young birds seem to grow very rapidly, and, when once they 

 start casting their down, they have it all off in a few days' time." 



From Mr. Borchgrevink's account of the species I extract the 

 following notes : — 



" Although the Penguin colony seemed to fill the very ground of 

 the peninsula, new arrivals continued even after the Penguins which 

 arrived first had been sitting on their eggs for a fortnight. The 

 Penguin rookery at the Peninsula of Camp Eidley, at Cape Adare, 

 was the same as when I visited it in 1894. The Penguins literally 

 covered the ground ; their nests lying on the top of the guano 

 deposits and consisting of small pebbles. I remembered I often 



