Chapter I: Part III: McCORMICK'S SKUA GULL 125

A SHORT NOTE ON EMPEROR PENGUINS 134

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Occasionally an unaccountable 'broodiness' seemed to
take possession of the penguins" Frontispiece

To face p.

An angry Adelie 2

Dozing 4

Waking up, stretching, and yawning 4

Pack-ice 8

Heavy seas in the autumn 8

"throw up masses of ice" 10

"which are frozen into a compact mass" 10

"and later, form the beautiful terraces of the ice-foot" 14

Penguins at the rookery 14

In the foreground a mated pair have begun to build 20

The rookery beginning to fill up 22

"The hens would keep up this peck-pecking hour after hour" 24

An affectionate couple 24

"Side by side ... nests of very big stones and nests of
very small stones" 26

On the march to the rookery 28

Part of the line of approaching birds, several miles in length 30

Arriving at the rookery 32, 34

Adelies arriving 36

A cock carrying a stone to his nest 36

Several interesting things are taking place here 38

Three cocks in rivalry 40

Two of the cocks squaring up for battle 40

Hard at it 42

The end of the battle 42

The proposal 44

Cocks fighting for hens 46, 48

Penguin on nest 48

Showing the position of the two eggs 50

An Adelie in "ecstatic" attitude 50

Floods 52

Flooded 54

A nest with stones of mixed sizes 54

"Hour after hour ... they fought again and again" 56

A nest on a rock 58

"One after another, the rest of the party followed him" 58

A joy ride 60

A knot of penguins on the ice-foot 62

An Adelie leaping from the water 64

An Adelie leaping four feet high and ten feet long 66

Jumping on to slippery ice 68

"When they succeeded in pushing one of their number over,
all would crane their necks over the edge" 70

Diving flat into shallow water 72, 74, 76, 78

Adelies "porpoising" 78

A perfect dive into deep water 80

Sea-leopards "lurk beneath the overhanging ledges" 82

A sea-leopard's head 84

A sea-leopard 10 ft. 61/2 in. long 86

A young sea-leopard on sea-ice 86

"With graceful arching of his neck, appeared to assure her
of his readiness to take charge" 88

"The chicks began to appear" 90

An Adelie being sick 90

Method of feeding the young 92

Profile of an Adelie chick 94

A task becoming impossible 96

Adelie with chick twelve days old 98

A couple with their chicks 100

Adelie penguins have a strong love of climbing for its own sake 102

Adelies on the ice-foot 104, 106, 108

"An imprisoned hen was poking her head up" 110

"Her mate appeared to be very angry with her" 110

"When she broke out, they became reconciled" 112

Adelie nests on top of Cape Adare 112

"Leapt at one another into the air" 130

A Skua by its chick 130

An Emperor Penguin 134

Profile of an Emperor 136

ADELIE PENGUINS(1)