Zoo Notes 33 
Pataginian or King Penguin, which he met in various islands of the high Southern 
Latitudes, and described in the Zoological Proceedings for 1835. ‘A colony of these 
birds covers 
an extent of 
30 or 40 acres, 
and their 
numbers it 1s 
almost im- 
possible to 
guess at with 
any near 
approach to 
HEUGIN, BS, 
during the 
whole of the 
day and 
night, 30,000 
THE OLD KING PENGUIN AND HIS or 40,000 of 
NEW COMPANIONS. them are con- THE THICK-BILLED PENGUIN. 
stantly land- 
ing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged when on shore, in as compact 
a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment of soldiers, and are classed with the 
ereatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds in another, 
the setting hens in a third, and the clean birds in a fourth, &c.; and so strictly do 
birds in similar condition congregate, that should a bird that is moulting imtrude itself 
amone those that are clean, it is immediately ejected from among them.” 
Os 
Tue beautifully marked “Geelbec” of South Africa, is the common duck of the country, 
and is abundantly found all over the south. Migratory im its habits, and 
usually seen in pairs, it exhibits all the wariness and caution of its race. 
We are told that once a year the farmers of the Vogel Vley, where they 
breed in considerable abundance, assemble for a grand hunt after these birds. The 
shooters are posted at different parts of the long sheet of water hidden among the rushes; 
men are then sent along with long waggon whips (the crack of which is nearly equal 
to a gun), and 
the wretched 
birds fly back- 
wards and 
forwards, hay- 
ing no other 
water for 
many miles, 
and as they 
pass the am- 
bushes, are 
shot down, 
and the day’s 
butchery 
usually ~ fills 
many sacks. 
Yellow-billed 
Duck. 
NANKEEN NIGHT HERON, THE YELLOW-BILLED DUCK 
