THE PENGUINS 



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young birds a broad blackish band occupies the whole of the front of the lower part 

 of the throat, and joins directly with the dark area of the back, while there is no 

 white line through the eye. Humboldt's penguin has the white line running just 

 above the eye, and no white area below the same. 



GROUP OF BLACK-FOOTED PENGUINS. 



Habits 



Penguins, writes a recent observer, are the strangest creatures 

 ever seen; presenting a most curious appearance, both when strutting 

 about with their padded feet over the snow, or when gliding on their breasts down 

 a slope, toboggan fashion. When a visitor lands upon the Antarctic ice, the 



