Among the Penguins. 211 
We all watched the life of the penguins with 
the utmost interest, and I believe and hope that 
some of us learnt something from their habits and 
characteristics. It was most curious to see these 
birds as they invaded the peninsula in the spring, 
long bewe the ice broke. From the r4th 
October one continual stream of penguins waddled 
over the ice towards their summer residence ; like so 
many people, they walked 
after one another. Some 
ol them had evidently 
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come to grief in the screw-ice, having crushed feet and 
flippers. They at once started nest-making on their 
arrival, picking their old places and bringing new 
pebbles to the nest. During the time of love- 
making—when they were studied most attentively by 
my bachelor staff—it goes without saying that they 
had many hard fights. On sunny days the male 
bird stood erect in the old nest, his head stretched 
upwards, his beak towards the zenith, and while he 
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