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egg-carrying habits of the Penguins. If possible a King Penguin was to 

 be photographed so as to show the egg in position in the sac. Captain 

 Fuller told me he felt sure he could manage the camera, which was fitted 

 with a roll holder and films, but greatly feared the dark and foggy weather 

 prevailing would hinder the best results. 



" About ten months later I received four rows of films by schooner from 

 St. Helena, where the ' Francis Allyn ' had transhipped her catch of skins. 

 They were Eastman films and many were excellent, especially such as 

 had been exposed in sunlight at Cape Town, St. Helena, and Tristan 

 d'Acunha. But the special efforts to photograph seals, sea elephants, 

 Penguins of all degrees, Skuas (Buphagus skua antarcticus], Johnny 

 Rooks (Senex australis], Sheath-bills (Chionis minor], and many another 

 strange and interesting denizen of that comfortless Antarctic region were 

 all failures, in part at least. The weather was no doubt largely respon- 

 sible for this, and in many cases there was barely light enough to show a 

 horizon line. The large percentage of failures was relieved by the fact 

 that some of the best and most decipherable among them bore precisely 

 upon the point stated by Dr. Kidder upon the authority of Captain Fuller. 

 The photograph from which Mr. E. Whitney Blake has kindly made a 

 careful scale drawing now reproduced, was one of the best of three, all 

 meant to show the egg in the pouch. All three were taken on Kerguel- 

 en's Island, during January, 1894, at which time the whole 'rookery' of 

 Penguins was incubating. While the sailors caught the birds, then not a 

 hard task, Captain Fuller photographed them, and while very bad photo- 

 graphically, it is possible to decipher at least one of them, as I think the 

 drawing proves. A careful inspection of the original shows the larger 

 end of the egg, which barely projects from the external sac, which holds 

 it firmly between the thighs of the bird, a king Penguin. The bird re- 

 clines in its position in the sailor's arms, while his finger holds the egg 

 securely, to prevent the bird dropping it. The soles of the Penguin's feet, 

 if one may so speak, are turned up toward the camera, and are clearly 

 defined against the breast. Mr. Blake's drawing shows this all and more." 

 (R. G. Hazard, Auk, 1894, pp. 280-281.) 



