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Show Describes Habits of Penguins. The penguins of South Georgia are described in a very interesting and informative memoir by R. C. Murphy, issued by the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The writer's field work in this subantarctic island extended from November, 1912, to March, 1913, thus including the greater part of the breeding season. During this time he acquired a rich store of Information concerning the life histories of the local species especially es-pecially the king and johnny penguins pen-guins and would have gathered more but foi the stupid vandalism of the crew of the sealing brig on which he made the voyage. A curious discovery discov-ery of the author was a penguin graveyard, grave-yard, a pool of snow water on a mountain moun-tain top, to which these Btrange birds retire to die. |