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PENGUINS. 
With a cord tied round its leg, to prevent its escape, 
it was permitted to sport in the water; but even with 
this restraint, which must have very much impeded 
its motions, it performed the motions of diving and 
swimming with a speed that set all pursuit from a 
boat at defiance, affording the most convincing proof 
that, had it been at full liberty, no fish could have 
escaped. 
The Aptenodytes, which may be called southern 
Penguins, as they never come beyond the limits of 
the Southern Ocean, are very numerous on the lonely 
isles scattered over the dreary wilderness of those 
seas. The largest of these, the King Penguin, ex- 
ceeds a Goose in size. As their legs project from 
their bodies in the same direction with their tails, 
they walk upright ; and when a flock of them are 
seen moving in file, or arranged along the ledges of 
the rocks, they appear like a company of soldiers : 
for they hold their heads very high, with stretched 
necks, while their little flappers project like two 
arms. As the feathers on their breasts are beauti- 
fully white, with a line of black running across the 
crop, they have been by others compared to a row of 
children, with white aprons tied round their waists 
with black strings. 
The great Albatross, as we have seen, spends 
the chief part of his life on the wing ; the King 
Penguin, on the other hand, rarely quits the 
water, with the exception of the breeding season, 
when, in some places, though not always, as 
we shall see in our account of the Albatross, in 
Tristan d'Acunha, both unite in vast flocks, and peo- 
ple the rugged rocks for a time. When a sufficient 
