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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (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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230 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL as if beckoning. The weak trumpetings of nestling Johnnies have a peevish, scolding quality, even hysterical at times. The youngsters have a soft, peeping note also, indicative of well-fed contentment. By the middle of January the young penguins were mostly two-thirds grown, and their incessant chattering could be heard a long way from the rookeries. The older youngsters walked about in an uncertain, wobbly fashion, tagging ing small tastes of food, with promises of more, but in hysterical fashion they would soon forget to wait for their feeble babies, and would have to be called back repeatedly. By the end of January all but a very few of the young penguins, still clad in the softest of gray and white "fur," hafl permanently deserted the nests and had congregated by themselves, but always under the guard of adult nurses. In fine weather the)' might be seen
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The Johnny on the left has fallen and soiled his clothes, youngsters is the signal of the approaching molt The white spot on the heads of these after their fathers and mothers and trumpeting nervously when left too far behind. When I walked among the nests, all but the youngest chicks left them and herded together. The brood- ing adults too, rushed away, but a few squeaks from the abandoned little ones usually brought them back, scampering hither and thither and swinging their wings frantically. If the youngsters happened to be old enough to walk, the parents coaxed them along by giv- sunning themselves on the snowbanks, and at other times crouching from the wind in sheltered hollows. Some of them were as large as the adults, but they were still dependent for their food, and they had not yet been to the sea- shore. I often saw them pleading to be fed when the old birds evidently did not wish to gratify them. Such begging youngsters ran about after the adults, following every dodge and turn, con- tinually bumping into them and stepping

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