. Il popolare di storia naturale . Zoologia. PUFFIN. -{Fratercula arctica. i pinguini formano un molto remiirkable sub-famiglia, tutti i suoi membri aventi le loro ali modificato in pagaie inutile per il volo, ma in grado di essere em- ployed come fore-gambe in progressione terrestre quando l'uccello è in una fretta e probabilmente come remi o piastre nell'acqua. Ci sono molte specie di pen- guins, ma come essi sono molto simili in generale abitudini, dobbiamo essere contenuto con un unico esempio.. Il pinguino del capo è molto comune presso il Capo di Buona Speranza e il Falk- land isole. Dallo straordinario suono che produce

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. The popular natural history . Zoology. PUFFIN. —{Fratercula arctica.) The Penguins form a very remiirkable sub-family, all its members having their wings modified into paddles useless for flight, but capable of being em- ployed as fore-legs in terrestrial progression when the bird is in a hurry, and probably as oars or paddles in the water. There are many species of Pen- guins, but as they are very similar in general habits, we must be content with a single example.. The Cape Penguin is very common at the Cape of Good Hope and the Falk- land Islands. From the extraordinary sound it produces while on shore, it is called the Jackass Penguin. Darwin gives the following interesting account of this bird:—" Indiving, its little plumeless wings are used as fins, but on the land, as front legs. When crawling (it may be said on four legs) through the tussocks, or on the side of a grassy cliff, it moved so very quickly that it might readily have been mistaken for a quadruped. When at sea and fishing, it comes to. the sur- face for the purpose of breathing, with such a spring, and dives again so instan- taneously, that I defy anyone at first sight to be sure that it is not a fish leaping for sport." These birds feed their young in a very singular manner. The parent bird gets on a hillock, and apparently deUvers a very impassioned speech for a few minutes, at the end of which, it lowers its head and opens its beak. The young one, who has been a patient auditor, thrusts its head into the open beak of the mother, and seems to suck its subsistence from the throat of the parent bird. Another speech is immediately made, and the same process repeated, until the young is satisfied. This Penguin is very courageous, but utterly destitute of the better part of courage — discretion ; for it will boldly charge at a man just as Don Quixote charged the wind- mills, and with the same success, as a few blows from a stick is sufficient to lay a dozen birds prostrate. The commo

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• bookcentury1800
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• booksubjectzoology
• bookyear1884