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them far out on the water, and they have come in to observe me 

 — swimming in close to the shore, moving round uneasily, and 

 diving from time to time. This specimen was one of a pair 

 which behaved in this way : they came in shore to observe me, 

 and enabled me to shoot one. 



In Central Patagonia, Durnford says of this Grebe : — 

 " Resident. Observed constantly in a large brackish lake in 

 the Chupat Valley in September, and subsequently seen in 

 lagoons in the valleys of the Sengel and Sengelen, and in Lake 

 Colguape." In the Province of Buenos Ayres he found these 

 birds "common, except during spring and summer. They are 

 found both singly and in small parties." 



I was under the impression that a bird of this sort, when 

 frequenting the sea, would feed on fish. 



In the stomach of this specimen I found a compact mass of 

 feathers and fragments of skin, apparently of some water bird or 

 water birds. 



SPHENISCI 



Family SPHENISCIDiE 

 SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS (Forster) 



Pinguin, Pemety, Voy. lies Malouines, ii, p. 565, pi. vii, 1769. 

 Aptenodytes magellanica, Forster, Commentationes Societatis Begice 



Oottingei)sis, iii, p. 143, pi. v, 1781. 

 Aptenodytes demersa (nee Linnmus), Abbott, Ibis, p. 336, 1860. 

 SplieniSCTlS magellaniCUS, Cunningham, Nat. Hist. Strait Magellan, 



p. 271, 1871 ; Sclater and Salvin, Zool. Voy. " Challenger,^' ii., p. 125, 



pi. xxviii, 1880 ; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 206, 1889 ; 



Oustalet, Miss. Sci. Gap Horn, Ois., p. 243, 1891 ; Grant, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xxvi, p. 651, 1898. 



Habitat. — Patagonia and Southern Chili, to Cape Horn ; the Falkland 

 Islands ; South Georgia. 



The Jackass Penguin has impressed all voyagers, in all 

 time, as a chief feature of these regions ; and has furnished 



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