PENGUINS ON THE SOUTH POLAR ICE. 



A scene showing the immense droves of penguins which often clothe the sea 

 edges of the ice and rocks in the South Polar regions is represented in the 

 annexed plate. 



The individuals in the front are of the large species known as the Great 

 Penguin, Aptenodytes Forsteri. Beyond is a group of the lesser, but perhaps 

 more beautiful, species, Aptenodytes Pennantii. 



In the distance are seen lines of another small kind, which has been made 

 a separate genus, under the denomination of Eudyptes. It is inferior in charac- 

 teristic beauty to either of the last named. Eudyptes antipodes is, however, 

 worthy of a better representation than the dimensions of our plate permitted 



