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PLATE XL THE ADELIE PENGUIN. 



FIG. 1. Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliv), on the run ; from a photograph by 

 R. W. SKELTON (S. 8, 5" x 4" plate), Feb. 1904 ; M'Murdo Sound. 



FIG. 2. Adelie Penguins; from a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (S. 7, 5": 

 plate), Feb. 1904 ; M'Murdo Sound. 



Captain Scott has thus written of these Penguins in the pack-ice :- ' The 

 squawk of the Penguin was constantly heard in the ice-pack, at first afar, and 

 often long before the birds were seen; curiosity drew them to the ship, and 

 suddenly their small figures appeared on a floe at some distance, only to scurry 

 across and leap into the water on the near side, when with what seemed 

 extraordinary rapidity they bobbed up again, shooting on to the surface of some 

 floe quite close to the ship. Here they paused and gazed at us with open- 

 eyed astonishment, occasionally uttering a prolonged call, apparently to attract 

 any of their fellows that might be in the neighbourhood. As the ship forced 

 her way onward, these merry little companions would again and again leap 

 into the water, journeying from floe to floe in their effort to find out what it 



all meant." 



See Scott, Voyage of the 'Discovery,' vol. i., p. 122; also, Nat. Hist. Rep., 



vol. ii., Aves, pp. 36-58. 



