Show PENGUINS = EEDING The Transformation That Tats Place Then They Enter the Water Tho appearance of tho keeper with his pail of live gudgeon is the signal for sudden and intense excitement in the cages Tho pen t lus wave their little lit-tle flippers and wTcldle to the door whence they pen eagerly down the ewooden stops loading to the pool The cormorant croaks and sways from side to side and the darters poise their snaky heads and spread their batlike wings At the waters edgs4heponguins do not launch themselves upon tho surface like other waterfowl but instantly plunge I beneath Once below water an astonishing change takes place The slow ungainly bird is transferred into a swift and brilliant bril-liant creature beaded with globules of quicksilver where the air clings to th close feathers and flying through the clear and waveless depths with arrowy speed and powers of turning far greater than in any known form of aerial flight Tho rapid and steady strokes of the wings are exactly similar to those of tho air birds while its feet float straight out level with the body unused for propulsion pro-pulsion or even as rudders and as little lit-tle needed in its progress as those of a wild duck when on die wing The twists and turns necessary to follow tho active little fish are made wholly by tho strokes of ono wing and tho cessation of movement in the other and the haro oliitsjecf caught and swallowed without the slightest relaxation relaxa-tion of speed in a submarine flight which is quite as rapid as that of most birds which take tSSir prey in midair In less than two mhintcs Gome 30 gudgeon gud-geon are caught aud swallowed below water the only appiranco of the birds on the surface bein lade by one or two bounds from the depths when the head and shoulders leap above the surface for n second and then disappear Any attempt to remain on the surface leads to ludicrous splshing and confusion confu-sion for tho submarine bird cannot float It can only fly below tho surface Immediately the meal is finished both penguins scramble or of the water an shufSo with round MVs and drooping wiug s hue 2J t I I ro drvand digest = oj torr I |