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PLATE LVL THE EMPEROR PENGUIN AND ITS YOUNG. 



From a photograph by R. W. SKELTON (Sk. 187, |-plate), Oct. 18, 1902 ; taken on 

 the sea-ice off Cape Crozier. 



The extraordinary method of carrying the young, common to the King and 

 Emperor Penguins, is here well shown. The young bird instead of squatting on the 

 ice, is supported on the dorsum of the parent's feet. In this position it is off the 

 ice, and is further protected from the cold by a loose fold of thickly feathered skin 

 which falls over it and can completely cover it from view. 



There is no " pouch," such as has often been described, but does not really 

 exist, in the case of the King Penguin. The methods employed by both King and 

 Emperor are precisely the same ; the former with a view to keeping its egg or 

 chicken from wet mud, and the latter with a view to keeping the egg or chicken 

 from the ice. 



See Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. ii., Aves, pp. 1-31. 



