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` Secondly, we shall, by making the excursions we so strongly 
advocate, contribute largely to the stock and variety of speci- 
mens we require for reference, &c. A system of exchange with 
kindred institutions in other parts might also be established to 
the benefit of all concerned. And when our meetings are 
hongred by the presence of visitors we can show that some 
practical work is being done by our members, and we do not 
merely bear the name of a Field Naturalists’ Association. 
Let us then resolve to verify the idea suggested by Words- 
worth, that 
Nature never did betray 
The heart that loved her. 
Cousin BENEDICT. 
DISSECTING A PENGUIN. 
Bv J. HAMMERTON, JUNR. 
While dissecting a penguin which was caught in our Bay and 
sent to the Gordon College, I was surprised at the number of 
small fish that it had taken for food. I counted 150, having an 
average length of 25 inches from head to tail. A hundred of 
them were perfect, and not marked in any way, showing that 
the bird had bolted them whole; the other fifty were more or 
less in a state of decomposition, but the heads could be easily 
recognised, thus indicating that they took longer to digest than 
the other parts of the bodies. The fish were all whitebait. In 
the throat there were twelve together, in a roll, the remainder 
being in successive rolls, and all were covered with a slimy 
coating fluid. It has been said that penguins live mostly on 
cuttle-fish, but this shows that they also live largely on small 
fish. 
PARASITES FOUND ON A SPECLES OF 
SCARABLAID A, 
One evening, recently, the temperature decidedly indicating 
that the advent of summer was approaching, some beetles of the 
above family, seeming to have been disturbed from their resting 
places, came buzzing into the room. Having secured one, and 
placed him on a sheet of white paper, our curiosity was aroused 
to find that he carried a detachment of smaller insects. We 
resolved at once to make a closer inspection. 
The species on which these parasites were found, and usually 
called the scavenger or dung beetle, very much resembles in 
external appearance the Onthophagus. The parasites nestle 
about the joints of the legs and under surface of the thorax, , 
