THE GREAT AUK. 
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hemisphere. It resembles the former in almost 
all its habits ; walking erect, and being very 
stupid : it also resembles it in colour, shortness 
of wings, rapidity of swimming, mode of feed- 
ing, and of making its nest. These birds hatch 
their young in an erect position, — and cackle 
like geese, but in a hoarser tone. The most 
remarkable kind is the Crested Penguin, which 
inhabits several of the South Sea islands, and 
which is sometimes called the Hopping Pen- 
guin, or Jumping Jack, from the circumstance 
of its leaping quite out of the water, some- 
times to the height of three or four feet, when 
it meets an obstacle in its course. 
