CRESTED PENGUINS OR ROCK-HOPPERS 

 (Eudyptes chrysocome) 



Penguins are more thoroughly aquatic than any other existing 

 birds, their wings having been converted into paddles of great 

 efficiency, though entirely useless for purposes of flight. The 

 group is characteristic of the Southern Hemisphere, and practi- 

 cally limited to the shores of the Antarctic Ocean. The species 

 represented is the Crested Penguin or Rock-hopper (Eudyptes 

 chrysocome\ which ranges from the Falkland Islands to New Zea- 

 land. It is a handsome black-and-white bird, with an orange- 

 coloured crest on either side of the head. Like so many sea-birds 

 the Rock-hoppers are social in habit. Their favourite breeding- 

 grounds are boulder-strewn slopes at some little distance from the 

 sea, and near fresh water, in which they are fond of bathing. The 

 nest is often a mere hollow scratched in the earth, though stems 

 and leaves may be roughly drawn together to form it. The Rock- 

 hopper, like Penguins generally, broods over its eggs in an erect 

 or semi-erect position, bringing them into contact with a bare 

 patch on the under side of the body, an arrangement which secures 

 a maximum of heat. 



