Aves.] 



SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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beautifully clean, in marked contrast to those on the rocks, whose feathers were 

 stained and bedaubed with mud from slushy holes found among the boulders. These 

 boulders vary very much in size, some being large enough to accommodate one bird 

 only, others capable of seating half a dozen. There is consequently an incessant 



Fio. 21. — BiG-cEESTEi) Penguin (Catarrhactes sciateri) knjoying the tluN.sHiNi;, 



Antipodes Island. 



jostling for places. The upper'surface of the boulders is quite smooth, poHshed by 

 the feet of countless generations of birds, and individuals are constantly slipping or 

 being driven off, falling between the boulders, whence they emerge by aid of flippers 

 and claws, sorry sights, bedaubed with slush from the foetid pools lying between 



