64 A bout the Feathered Folk. 



ing season covers forty orJifty acres. 

 Dr. Bennett, in his book on those 

 regions, says, " The number of Pen- 

 guins in spring-time is immense. It 

 would be impossible to guess at it 

 with any near approach to truth, as 

 during the whole day thirty or forty 

 thousand of them are continually 

 landing, and an equal number going 

 to sea. They sit quite upright in 

 their roosting-places, and walk in an 

 erect position until they arrive at 

 the beach, when they throw them- 

 selves on their breasts, in order to 

 encounter the very heavy sea which 

 is always to be met with at their 

 landing-places. 



"Theyarrange themselves when on 

 shore in as compact a manner, and 

 in as regular ranks, as a regiment of 

 soldiers on parade. And they class 

 themselves in the greatest order 

 the sitting hens in one situation, the 

 moulting birds in another, the young 

 birds in a third, the ' clean ' birds in 



