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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Tlie numerous rock hopper penguins and king shags on Kidney Island were apparently not at all averse to having their pictures taken. One does not need a blind to conceal his operations while photographing penguins or shags in the Falklands. A good raincoat, however, is desirable, as sudden snow or liail squalls are likely to drop out of some tlying cloud
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While the greater number of the rocky penguins will move aside for one passing through their colony, there are always some pugnacious individuals that rush boldly forward to hinder or hasten the visitor started over tlie rolling liills in the di- rection of tlu' colony. I had made the acquaintance of the pugnacious rociv hoppers and the secretive jack- ass penguins on lldefonso Island to the westward of Cape Horn the pre- ceding summer, but as we neared the first colony of gentoos and the birds 1)egan to innvo leisurely away from us, I was impressed at once by the marked difference in their size and the en- tirely different character of their nesting ground. On Ildefonso Is- land one had to se- lect the second or third day of suc- cessive calm days even to land, and Ihen had to climb with careful foot- steps over slippery rocks to the mud- dy cliffs where the two species of penguins nest in tlie thick tussac grass. In the Falk- lands one lands by launch at the wharf from the Koyal Mail steam- ers ; and it is pos- sible to mount a horse, visit the three species of penguins on their nesting grounds, and return the same day to the

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