. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS AYES: ORDER SPHENISCI. 161 â with their flesh, for greater warmth during incubation. The Puffin drives rabbits from their holes, or burrows to the depth of two or three feet to lay its single egg, while the Auk deposits its two eggs upon a rocky shelf in the side of a cliff overhanging the sea. ORDER SPHENISCI. General Characteristics.âThe Penguin is half fish and half bird in its habits. It has paddle-wings, with short, rigid, scale-hke feathers, disposed in regular order, and is incapable of flight. Its bones are dense and heavy, with no apertures
. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. CLASS AYES: ORDER SPHENISCI. 161 â with their flesh, for greater warmth during incubation. The Puffin drives rabbits from their holes, or burrows to the depth of two or three feet to lay its single egg, while the Auk deposits its two eggs upon a rocky shelf in the side of a cliff overhanging the sea. ORDER SPHENISCI. General Characteristics.âThe Penguin is half fish and half bird in its habits. It has paddle-wings, with short, rigid, scale-hke feathers, disposed in regular order, and is incapable of flight. Its bones are dense and heavy, with no apertures for Mg. SpUemscus demersus^ Jackass Penguin, ^g. the admission of air. It usually keeps near the land, but seldom visits it, except for nesting. Whole companies then sit erect along the shore, where they might easily be "mis- taken for a party of choristers with surplices and black ; The Penguin is confined to the colder regions of the South,* as the PufiBn and Auk are to those of the North. * The Patagonian Penguins are said to collect in sucli numl; ers at breeding-places as to cover thirty or forty acres. The ground is laid out in squares for their nests,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Steele, Joel Dorman, 1836-1886. New York, Chicago [etc. ] A. S. Barnes & Company
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