. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. SWIMMING BIRDS. 461 the rocks. Puffins are found in great numbers on our northern V '. — l-.'H'.MPER Fig. 389.—puffin. The Penguins, properly so called (Aim), have the bill elongated like the blade of a knife, and covered with featliers as far as the nostrils. Tlieir wings are so decidedly too small to sustain their weight that tliey never fly at all. The manner in which they feed their young is curious and rather amuciing. The old bird gets on a little eminence and makes a great noise, between quacking and braying, ho
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. SWIMMING BIRDS. 461 the rocks. Puffins are found in great numbers on our northern V '. — l-.'H'.MPER Fig. 389.—puffin. The Penguins, properly so called (Aim), have the bill elongated like the blade of a knife, and covered with featliers as far as the nostrils. Tlieir wings are so decidedly too small to sustain their weight that tliey never fly at all. The manner in which they feed their young is curious and rather amuciing. The old bird gets on a little eminence and makes a great noise, between quacking and braying, holding its head up in the air, as if it was haranguing the penguinary, while the young one stands close to it, but a little lower. The old bird having continued its clatter for about a minute, puts its licad down, and opens its mouth widely, into which the young one thrusts its head and appears to suck from the throat of its mother for a minute or two, after which the clatter is repeated, and the young one fed again : this continues for about ten minutes.—Darwin. The Common Penguins (AIca torda and inca) are about the size of diiclvs, while the Great Penguin {Aha imi^ennis) equals tliat of a goose.* The latter lays hut a siugle egg, which is spotted with purple. * Perhaps we ought rather to say equalled that of a goose, for although a few years ago these birds were sufficiently common, sucli has been the relentless warfare carried on against them that tlie .species is believed by ornitliologists to be now totally extinct. ^. 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 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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