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PLATE LX. THE EMPEROR PENGUIN AND ITS YOUNG. 



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

 sea-ice off Cape Crozier. 



The portrait given here is a companion picture to that shown in Plate LVI. 

 Both were taken by Lieut. -Engineer Skelton, who, on a sledge journey with 

 Lieut. Royds, was the first to discover the Emperor Penguin's breeding ground and 

 young at Cape Crozier; up to the present time this is still the only "rookery" 

 known of this very remarkable species of Penguin. The first egg (excepting always 

 the "Drayton" egg, whose history is given in the Nat. Hist. Rep., vol. ii., Aves, 

 p. 28) was found shortly after, at the same spot, by Lance- Corporal Blissett, R.M.L.I., 

 who formed one of a sledge party to Cape Crozier, also under Lieut. Royds, in 

 Nov. 1902. 



