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INTRODUCTION 1
PART I
THE FASTING PERIOD 17
PART II
DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE AD?LIE PENGUIN 51
McCORMICK'S SKUA GULL 125
A SHORT NOTE ON EMPEROR PENGUINS 134
"Occasionally an unaccountable 'broodiness' seemed to take possession of the penguins" Frontispiece
To face p.
An angry Ad?lie 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
Ad?lies 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 Ad?lie 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 Ad?lie leaping from the water 64
An Ad?lie 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
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