Antarctic Fauna 
ANTARCTIC FAUNA. 
MAMMALS. 
White. a tah Te the Coloured. 
Antarctic White | None. Other Seals than 
Seal (Lobodon Lobodon. 
carcinophaga), Whales. 
in some cases. 
BIRDs. 
Sheathbill. None. Penguins. 
Snowy Petrel. Cormorant. 
Giant Petrel(some Skua Gull. 
individuals). Giant Petrel 
Chick of Emperor (usually). 
Penguin. Other Petrels. 
It will be observed that the third column con- 
tains the largest number of forms. It is thus 
evident that the whiteness of the Arctic and 
Antarctic faunas in winter has been greatly 
exaggerated. 
The Arctic fox appears in all three columns, as 
the creature seems to fall into three races—a 
permanently white race, a permanently coloured 
race, and a seasonally dimorphic race. 
Of the creatures set forth in the middle column 
of the above tables all are whiter in winter than 
in summer with the exception of the snow bunt- 
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