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On January 18th we saw two large penguins 
(A. Forsterit). lt was а pair. The female was just 
moulting. The male had just finished moulting, but 
its feathers were not quite developed. The female was 
sitting to the leeward at the back of a block of ice, 
and looked as if it had occupied that place for some 
time, as a road was trod all round the block of ice, and 
it was full up with old quills and dirt. It looked rather 
miserable and seemed to suffer from the cold. While 
we were steering down so as to be able to catch her 
we discovered its mate in the wake of the vessel. 
It however dived until it suddenly jumped up on the 
ice-floe where the female was sitting. These penguins 
must have a wonderful power of location, as the male 
bird must have been about three hundred yards from 
the vessel when 
we last Saw 
ШИШ, until M 
appeared on 
the floe where 
ic "mate was 
camping. The 
space between 
where it dived 
and the block 
DL Ace was 
covered with 
: MR. COLBECK, MR. BERNACCHI, AND 
ice-floes. The MR. EVANS SKINNING A SEAL. 
contents of the 
stomach of the female bird consisted mainly of 
half-digested alge, also some pebbles; and in 
the case of the male, of a great amount of small 
shrimps and small fish ; the latter were, however, 
