_ NOTES ON CLASSIFICATION BY ORDER 75 
Water birds with webbed or lobed toes, hind toe 
very small, legs set very far back and much flattened. 
Sexes alike. Young active and soon able to feed 
themselves. Food, chiefly fish. 
The Grebe have long necks, no tails, front toes 
surrounded by lobes of skin and frequently erests 
or ruffs in the breeding season. 
SPHENISCIFORMES. 
Blue Penguin White-flippered Penguin 
Crested Penguin : 
Beak never hooked. Wing feathers small and 
. stiff. Wings short, used as swimming organs. Tail 
of narrow rigid feathers. Tarsi very short, front 
toes united by a web, hind toe very small, united to 
the tarsus. Young helpless, fed by parents. Nest in 
burrows, or slight depression. Food mainly fish. 
