A CITY OP BIRDS. 



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trespasser is immediately driven out from the precincts 

 he has invaded." 



Another species — the gentle penguins, commonly 

 called Johnnies — build hamlets and villages of from a 



Penguins lunning. 



dozen to seventy and one hundred and fifty families 

 or more. Rev. A. E. Eaton has written a description 

 of a small community of these birds at Eoyal Sound, 

 Kerguelen Island, which, as you may know, is situated 

 very far south, in the Indian Ocean. He says : 



" The birds occupied a position on the neck of a 

 low promontory within an hour's walk of Observa- 



