Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
e from thetumult by diving down into the water to adepth that no tempest can disturb. Penguins spend a few months in every yearon the rocky islands where their eggs are laid, a layer of grass and of leaves of the Pringlea—a coarse, cabbage-like plant—is spread overthe stones. In October they visit… … A GROUP OF YOUNG PENGUINS. and here the young birds are reared. Thenests are on the ground, which is sometimeshollowed out a little by the birds, though fre-quently a sheltered nook by a rock is selected.The nests being so shallow, the birds havehad to use their reasoning faculties in orderto…
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