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that it is not a fish leaping for sport.”* Of the same 
species, apparently, Captain Fitzroy thus speaks :— 
“Multitudes of Penguins were swarming together 
in some parts of the island [Noir Island], among the 
bushes and tussocks near the shore, having gone 
there for the purposes of moulting and rearing their 
young. They were very valiant in self-defence, and 
Tan, open-mouthed, by dozens, at any one who in- 
vaded their territory, little knowing how soon astick 
could scatter them on the ground. The young were 
good eating, but the others proved to be black and 
tough when cooked. The manner in which they 
feed their young is curious, and rather amusing. 
the old bird gets ona little eminence, and maker 
a great noise, between quacking and braying, hold 
ing its head up in the air, as if it were haranguing 
the penguinnery, while the young one stands close to 
it, but a little lower. The old bird having continued 
its clatter for about a minute, puts its head down, 
and opens its mouth widely, into which the young 
one thrusts its head, and then appears to suck from 
the throat of its mother for a minute or two, after 
which the clatter is repeated, and the young one 
is again fed; this continues for about ten minutes. 
I observed some that were moulting make the same 
noise, and then apparently swallow what they thus 
supplied themselves with; so, in this way, I suppose, 
they are furnished with subsistence during the time 
they cannot seek it in the water.’+ Mr. Weddell 
observes of the King Penguins:—‘In pride these 
% Voyages of Adventure and Beagle, iii. 256. t Ibid. i. 387. 
