THE WADING AND SWIMMING BIRDS. 1838 
The Cape Penguin, Fig. 150, is very abundant at the Cape 
of Good Hope and the Falkland Islands. In the water 
gE its wings are used as 
fins, but on the land 
as front legs. When 
it crawls, as we may 
say, on all-fours, it 
moves so quickly that 
it might readily be 
taken for a quadru- 
ped. The rookeries 
of the Penguins, ar- 
ranged with great 
regularity, though oc- 
cupied by vast num- 
bers of them, have oft- 
= en been described by 
Fig. 150.—Cape Penguin. travelers. They make 
a singular appearance standing on the shore in dense col- 
umns in immense multitudes. The largest species of 
Patagonian Penguin is four feet high, and weighs forty 
pounds. These birds, looked at in front, appear, with 
their fin-like wings hanging down like arms, as so many 
children with white aprons on. 
296. The Gulls, in strong contrast with the family just 
noticed, are distinguished by great power of flight. They 
are found at sea at all distances, and never at any dis- 
tance inland, and they are therefore said to be oceanic in 
their habits. They obtain their food at or near the sur- 
face of the water, and so are not good divers. The 
Stormy Petrel, Fig. 151 (p.184), the smallest of all web- 
footed birds, belongs to this family. It is distributed over 
every part of the ocean. It is called by the sailor Moth- 
er Carey’s Chicken, and is associated in his mind with 
the idea of a storm, because it is so much at ease even in 
the most violent storms, coursing over the waves in the 
most sportive manner. These birds are fond of accom- 
