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wondered, after my first visit, how the Penguins managed to get the 

 material for their nests, and I presumed that they brought it from 

 the sea-shore. This, however, they seldom did. The pebble supply 

 generally came down to the Peninsula from the top of the Cape, 

 driven by the furious gales, and I could not but recollect the old 

 proverb which runs : ' It's an ill wind that blows nobody good,' and 

 the Penguins usually had a very busy time after one of those very 

 strong gales, which we, however, did not appreciate. Those Penguins 

 {Eudjj'ptes adelice) which we met on tlie outward voyage have nearly 

 all of them black throats, and so have the myriads on the peninsula 

 at Cape Adare in the early spring. However, I was enabled to solve 



ADELIA PENGUINS PAIRED. 

 {By permission of Sir George Newnes, Bart.) 



the question whether the black-throated Penguin is of the same 

 species as the white-throated one or not, later in the season, when 

 the young ones were nearly full-grown. The full-grown young ones 

 had more or less white throats, and no doubt at my first visit to 

 Camp Eidley in 1894, when I found the Penguin colony consisted 

 almost entirely of white-throated birds, they were evidently well 

 advanced young ones. The absence of the black-throated Penguin at 

 that time is easily explained by the fact that the old ones, uncharit- 

 able as it may seem, leave their young ones and go to sea towards 

 the time their offspring should be able to look after themselves. 

 Hence I believe that it had been a somewhat more favourable season 

 for the Penguin colony at the time of my first visit to Cape Adare, as 



