The Wilds of Patagonia a Narrative of the Swedish Expedition to Patagonia Tier
The Wilds of Patagonia a Narrative of the Swedish Expedition to Patagonia Tier
Carl Skottsberg
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Large grass- bogs cover the slopes, where mollymawks {Diomedea chlororhyncha) have their rookery. There are eggs in the nests, one of which is more than sufficient as a breakfast dish. To obtain these one must lift the hen away by force; quick as lightning she turns her head, opens her long beak, and shuts it with a click, and finally tries to turn her crop inside out and sprinkle the half- digested, stinking food on the intruders. On the slope above the albatross's dominion is a penguin rooker...y, where the visitor may like to stop and look at those, perhaps the most comical of all, animals chattering and screaming among the pink- coloured guano. They belong to the " rock- hoppers " {Eudyptes chrysocome), and are dark blue and white, with a number of yellow feathers on the side of the head. The penguins depend completely on the water, and those of West Point have a hard MOLLYMAWK ROOKEKV, WksT PoiXT ISLAND. Penguin Rookery (Eudyptes) Wesi- Point Island. THE COASTS OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS 17 climb of over a hundred yards to the surf, where they tumble about in a most neck- breaking fashion.
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