I30 



SoutJicni ( ross. 



companions and attack you luriously; on presenting the sole of the 



font, 1 to.l of course, they peck at it viciously and with such vigour 



as to leave marks upon the hard frozen leather. They do not give 

 wav an inch of ground, hut stand up hefore you erect and deter- 

 mined. 



"As to their general hahits. On landing they made straiglit for 

 a certain si)Ot; some to the summit of the Cape, up the snow slope 

 of which they climh with great facility, some to the base of the 

 mountain, and <ithers scattered over the shore. They congregate 



ADELIA PENGUINS AND YOUNG. 

 {By jierviUsion of Metsrs. Burst <(■ lilachelt.) 



togethi^r in communities or social coteries of tifty and upwards. On 

 reaching the spot they immediately start to build their nests, in 

 wliich work the male as well as the female participates. The nests 

 are crude affairs ; the first operation consists of scratching a small 

 depression in the old guano, then pebbles are carried to it in their 

 bills and piled around, and as .soon as it is completed, which takes a 

 day or so, the female sits in it and the male commences his courtship. 

 It wa.s hiuddv amusing to watch their love antics. Some are 

 industrious and pile around many hundreds of small pebbles, others — 

 the lazv ones — were quite proud and delighted with only half-a- 



