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a fourth. And so strictly do all in 

 a similar condition keep together 

 : should a bird that is moultm- 

 intrude itself amongst those that are 

 * clean,' it is immediately ejected 

 from among them." 



As I confessed, I myself, from 

 personal observation, know nothing 

 r Penguins, but lean easily imagine 

 the scene Dr. Bennett describes, as I 

 have seen our British birds, puffins 

 and guillemots, very nearly and 

 familiarly in their colonies in the 

 Hebrides. 



They also sit, or stand, erect on 

 the rock-ledges; they also train and 

 tend their nurslings; they also dive 

 and swim, and sport in the depths 

 of the mighty sea. But both guille- 

 mots and puffins can fly- a thing 

 perfectly impossible to any Penguin 

 ever hatched. 



I recommended my readers to go 

 and look at the Penguin in "the 

 Zoo." I wish I could with reason 



