. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE OLD KING PENGUIN AND HISNEW COMPANIONS. THE THICK-BILLED PENGUIN. stantly land-ing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged when on shore, in as compacta manner and in as regular ranks as a Tegiment of soldiers, and are classed with thegreatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds in another,the setting hens in a third, and the clean birds in a fourth, &c.; and so strictly dobirds in similar condition congregate, that should a bird that is moulting intrude itselfamong those that a
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE OLD KING PENGUIN AND HISNEW COMPANIONS. THE THICK-BILLED PENGUIN. stantly land-ing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged when on shore, in as compacta manner and in as regular ranks as a Tegiment of soldiers, and are classed with thegreatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds in another,the setting hens in a third, and the clean birds in a fourth, &c.; and so strictly dobirds in similar condition congregate, that should a bird that is moulting intrude itselfamong those that are clean, it is immediately ejected from among them. The beautifully marked Geelbec of Soi,itIi Africa, is the common duck of the country,and is abundantly found all over the south. Migratory in its habits, and Yellow=billed ^-igually seen in pairs, it exhibits all the wariness and caution of its are told that once a year the farmers of the Vogel Vley, where they breed in considerable abundance, assemble for a grand hunt after these birds. The shooters
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