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as if beckoning. The weak trumpetings 
of nestling Johnnies have a_peevish, 
scolding quality, 
even hysterical at 
times. The youngsters have a soft, 
peeping note also, indicative of well-fed 
contentment. 
By the middle of January the young 
penguins were mostly two-thirds grown, 
and their incessant chattering could be 
heard a long way from the rookeries. 
The older youngsters walked about in 
an uncertain, wobbly fashion, tagging 
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The Johnny on the left has fallen and soiled his clothes. 
youngsters is the signal of the approaching molt 
after their fathers and mothers and 
trumpeting nervously when left too far 
behind. When I the 
nests, all but the youngest chicks left 
them and herded together. 
walked among 
The brood- 
ing adults too, rushed away, but a few 
squeaks from the abandoned little ones 
usually brought them back, scampering 
hither and thither and swinging their 
wings frantically. If the youngsters 
happened to be old enough to walk, 
the parents coaxed them along by giv- 
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ing small tastes of food, with promises 
of more, but in hysterical fashion they 
would soon forget to wait for their 
feeble babies, and would have to be 
called back repeatedly. 
By the end of January all but a very 
few of the young penguins, still clad in 
the softest of gray and white “fur,” 
had permanently deserted the nests and 
had congregated by themselves, but 
always under the guard of adult nurses. 
In fine weather they might be seen 
The white spot on the heads of these 
sunning themselves on the snowbanks, 
and at other times crouching from the 
wind Some of 
them were as large as the adults, but 
they were still dependent for their food, 
and they had not yet been to the sea- 
shore. I often saw them pleading to be 
fed when the old birds evidently did not 
wish to gratify them. Such begging 
youngsters ran about after the adults, 
following every dodge and turn, con- 
tinually bumping into them and stepping 
in sheltered hollows. 
