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position, uniform cleanliness, and beautiful golden yellow cravat, 

 contrasts finely with the dark back-ground by which they are re- 

 lieved, so that the similitude is no unapt one, which compares them 

 to a regiment of soldiers immediately after parade. The females 

 lay but one egg on the bare ground, which is rather larger than 

 that of a goose, and of about equal value as an article of food, but 

 differs a little in shape, being more tapering at its smaller end. 

 The egg lies between the feet, the tail being sufficiently long to 

 conceal iteflcctually from the sight. When approached they move 

 from you with a waddling gait, rolling it along over the smooth 

 surface of the ground, so that a person not acquainted with the fact 

 might pass through hundreds of them without discovering it. The 

 Spheniscus antarcticus, Shaw, (rookery penguin) is more numer- 

 ous than any of the other species, assembling together in vast con- 

 gregations, occupying the smooth strips of plain for a mile or more 

 in extent ; passing through them, they barely give you sufficient 

 space, picking at your legs, and keeping up a continual chatter. 

 Their whole appearance as you walk along, brings powerfully to 

 your recollection the story of Gulliver, striding among the Lillipu- 

 tians. The Chrysocoma saltator, C. torquata, C. catarractes, 

 Shaw, are occasionally found along the beach, and scattered 

 among the others. These birds swim with great velocity through 

 the sea and may be seen several feet in depth shooting along in 

 every direction, at short intervals rising to its surface, darting out 

 and in again, at the same time, uttering a quick sound very similar 

 to that produced by a single blast on a split quill. Phalacrocorax 

 graculus, Shaw. Sterna hirundo ? Lin. Diomedea exulans, Lin. 

 and fuliginosa, Lath. Daption capense — antarcticum — niveum, 

 Shaw. Fulmarius giganteus, and antarcticus, Shaw, are all very 

 common. Procellaria pelagica ? Lin. This is much smaller than 

 any I observed in other parts of the ocean, and may probably prove 

 a distinct species. Larus eburneus ? Gmel. Lestris ca'tarractes, 

 Tem. are also common. Chionis Forsteri, Shaw, (sheath bill.) 

 This is the white pigeon so often mentioned by mariners as inhab- 

 iting the islands of the southern ocean, it is easily caught by 

 the hand, and soon becomes domesticated. We kept a number of 

 them several days after leaving these islands, they ran about the 

 decks of the vessel apparently without any disposition to leave 

 them, feeding from the hand of any individual that offered them 



