DOMESTIC LIFE 



band, and stopped. In the flash of a moment the 

 entire band from which he came executed the 

 movement " left turn," this bringing them all into 

 a position facing him. So well ordered was the 

 movement that we could scarcely believe our eyes. 

 Then from the small band our single bird had 

 approached, another single bird ran out, upon 

 which his own party did exactly as the first had 

 done, so that the two bands now stood facing 



one another, some fifteen yards apart. Then 

 spontaneously, the two bands marched straight 

 toward one another, and joined to form one body. 

 After this we saw the same procedure being enacted 

 in many other places, the penguins coming down 

 from the rookery and forming small bands which 

 joined together. Then the augmented bodies 

 would join other augmented bodies, to form 

 still larger ones, which then joined together, and 



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