Deserted by his fellows, this young Johnny has his ‘‘heart in his throat’’ 
THE PENGUINS OF SOUTH GEORGIA 
“ JOHNNIES’”’ AND “KINGS”? ON A DESOLATE SUBANTARCTIC ISLAND! 
By Robert Cushman Murphy 
Illustrations from photographs by the Author 
HE territory of the “Little People 
of the Antarctic”’ has lately been 
subjected to so many friendly 
invasions that we are beginning to feel 
fairly well acquainted with a number of 
their tribes. First in entertaining word 
pictures, then in photographs, and 
finally in the beauty and realism of the 
cinematograph film, we have been shown 
something of the life histories of the 
jolly little Adélie penguin, the stately 
emperor and several others. 
Owing to the recent interest in ex- 
ploration and discovery upon the south 
polar continent itself, the penguins? 
1 Article and photographs copyrighted, Feb- 
ruary, 1915, by Robert Cushman Murphy. 
2A study of the habits of penguins is partic- 
ularly valuable at this time when public interest 
has recently been given to Sir Douglas Mawson’s 
wonderful moving pictures of penguins, taken 
on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and 
inhabiting those uttermost shores have 
been studied somewhat to the exclusion 
of species equally intc resting, and longer 
known to man, which dwell outside the 
Antarctic Circle and make their homes 
upon the chain of desolate Subantarctic 
islands. During the American Mu- 
seum’s recent expedition to South 
Georgia, which lies within the ice-fields 
of the South Atlantic, two species of 
penguins were intimately encountered — 
exhibited daily at Weber’s Theatre in New York 
City during one of the spring months. 
It is to be noted that none of the species pictured 
by Sir Douglas Mawson (the Adélie, emperor, 
gentoo, Victoria, king and royal) nor those de- 
scribed by Mr. Murphy have ever been kept in 
zoological gardens, although a few unsuccessful 
attempts have been made with the king penguin 
in Europe. One can study in the New York Zo6- 
logical Park at the present time several speci- 
mens of the blackfooted penguin (Speniscus 
demersus) from South Africa [purchased through 
German dealers]|.— Tue Eprror. 
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