GENERA OF PENGUINS 
the various islands of the Antarctic ocean, from the 
Falklands in the west to New Zealand in the east, and 
as far north only as to the Cape of Good Hope. They 
are almost alone in their limitation to this region of 
the globe. Within this cold and inhospitable, though 
fish-teeming, expanse, the penguins are represented by 
a considerable number of forms, which have been 
arranged into at any rate five different generic types. 
These are Aptenodytes, Spheniscus, Eudyptes, Eudyptula 
and Pygosceles. Our particular type and five or six 
of the rest have been frequently on view at the Zoo, 
where they attract great attention from their grotesque 
form and their easy and lithe movements under water. 
On shore, and at the brink of their pools at the Zoo, 
they waddle or hop awkwardly ; a small penguin which 
was some years ago in the renovated Fish House was 
clad on occasions by the keeper with a little coat, and 
hopped more energetically than, but with something 
of the air of, an elderly and obese gentleman. In 
fact the first observers of penguins took them, from their 
upright position and from being drawn up in lines, to be 
soldiers prepared to repel an invasion of their fast- 
nesses. Far from being so prepared, the bulk of penguins 
are or were, for they may be in places a little more 
sophisticated, stupidly unaware of intended harm, 
and they could be knocked over by thousands with a 
stick. Obese penguins always are, as their very name, 
which is supposed to be connected with the Latin 
‘““pinguis,”’ denotes. Some ingenious commentators 
have sought in Pen Gwin, i.e. “‘ white head,” a deriva- 
tion of the pseudo-vernacular name by which every- 
body knows them now. The penguin is not a good goer 
upon dry land. His legs, rather swaddled up in skin, 
do not permit of an easy stride or even an efficient 
hop. - But as the bird never goes away far from the sea, 
its proper home, this unfitness is not a serious matter 
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