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wings on the sand or mud, dashing the mud into one's eyes as 

 one chases them. When in the water, as they come to the 

 surface, they make a sort of very feeble imitation of the leap of 

 the crested penguins, never throwing the whole of the body 

 out of the water, but only the back. They are also to be seen 

 swimming about when undisturbed, with their head and back 

 out of the water, and body horizontal. 



Another penguin, the "Rock Hopper" {^Eudyptes saltator), 



the same species that 



occurs at Tristan da 

 Cunha, but a little 

 smaller, as far as I 

 could judge, was nest- 

 mg about the low cliffs 

 on the shore. The 

 ground on which the 

 nests were made was 

 very wet and filthy, 

 and the nests were, 

 like those of the 

 Jackass Penguins at 

 the Cape of Good 

 Hope, made of small 

 stones, raising the 

 egg about an inch 

 from the mud. These 

 penguins were exactly 

 like the Tristan ones 

 m their cry, and were 

 quite as savage, but 

 then they were in 

 full sight, and not 

 amongst grass ; for 

 though there was 

 plenty of grass just 

 over them, nearly a 

 foot in height, they 

 prefer to build where 

 the ground is quite bare. The birds, therefore, for some 

 reason have adopted slightly different habits from those of the 

 representatives of the species at Tristan da Cunha. 



Most interesting, however, by far, amongst all rookeries of 

 penguins which I have seen, was one of King Penguins {Aptcno- 

 dytes longirostris), which I met with a little further along the 

 shore. The rookery was on a space of perfectly flat ground of 

 about an acre in extent. It was divided into two irregular por- 



KING' PENGUIN. APTENODYTES LONGIROSTRIS. 



