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PLATE XIV. ADELIE PENGUINS AT CAPE ADARE. 



From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 52, ^-plate), Jan. 9, 1902 ; looking 

 in a southerly direction towards the head of Robertson Bay. 



The Penguin "rookeries" are undoubtedly a great feature, not of Cape 

 Adare only but of the whole Antarctic coast-line. The particular species here 

 illustrated is known as the Adelie Penguin (Pyfloscelis adelice], and was so named 

 because it was first discovered off the Adelie Land coast ; but it is equally 

 abundant, if not more so, off the coast of South Victoria Land, the South 

 Shetlands, and Louis Philippe Land. "Rookeries" were met with in the 

 'Discovery's' cruise at the following places: Cape Adare, Possession Islands, 

 Coulman Island, Wood Bay, Cape Jones, Cape Royds, Cape Bird, and Cape 

 Crozier. So pungent is the smell of these nesting grounds, that on one occasion 

 it carried and was recognised at a distance of thirty miles over Ross Island and 

 the Great Ice Barrier. 



