320 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE,

them te roost in its master’s yard during the night. In that
period of restraint, when it was necessary to observe the
caution of drawing its quill feathers, to keep it within
diminished capabilities of flight, until it became familiar and
domesticated, it was wholly dependent on the fish provided
for it by the fishermen of the beach. Sunday was no fishing
day with these men; and this was, therefore, a day in which
there were no supplies for the pelican. It became, in time,
so conscious of the recurrence of this fast-day, that although,
at all other times, it went daily down to the sea-side to
wait the coming in of the canoes, on the seventh day it
never stirred from the incumbent trunk of a tree, on which
it roosted, within the yard. It had been found necessary to
pluck its wings within the last two or three months, to ree
strain it within bounds, in consequence of its absence latterly
with the wild birds, for several days in succession, and in
this state it was reduced, as formerly, to depend on the
fishermen for food. The old habit of abstinence and drowsy
repose on the Sundays again recurred, and when I saw it,
it was once more a tranquil observer of the rest, and with
it the fast, of the Sabbath-day.”

The Penguin. The Penguin belongs to South America, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope. There
are a number of species; the Jackass Penguin, so called from
the peculiarity of its cry, the King Penguin of the South
Pacific, and the Cape Penguin of Cape Horn, the largest of
the penguins, being the principal varieties. Mr. Darwin in
describing the Jackass penguin says:—“In diving, its little
plumeless wings are used as fins, but on the land as front
Jegs. When crawling (it may be said on four legs) through
the tussocks, or on the side of a grassy cliff, it moved so
very quickly that it might readily have been mistaken for a
quadruped. When at sea and fishing, it comes to the surface,
for the purpose of breathing, with such a spring, and dives
again so instantaneously, that I defy any one at first sight