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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Deserted by his fellows, this j^ounji Joliniiy has his "heart in his throat"' THE PENGUINS OF SOUTH GEORGIA JOHNNIES" AND "KINGS" ON A DESOLATE SUBANTARCTIC ISLAND By Robert Cushman Murphy Illustrations from photographs by the Author THE territory of the " Little People of the Antarctic " has lately been subjected to so many friendly invasions that we are beginning to feel fairly well acquainted with a number of their tribes. First in entertaining word pictures, then in photographs, and finally in the beauty and realism of the cinematograph film, we have been shown something of the life histories of the jolly little Adelie penguin, the stately emperor and several others. Owing to the recent interest in ex- ploration and discovery upon the south polar continent itself, the penguins- 1 Article and photographs copyrighted, Feb- ruary, 1915, by Robert Cushman Murphy. 2 A study of the habits of penguins is partic- ularly valuable at this time when public interest has recently been given to Sir Douglas Mawson's wonderful moving pictures of penguins, taken on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and inhabiting those uttermost shores have been studied somewhat to the exclusion of species equally intc^-esting, and longer known to man, which dwell outside the Antarctic Circle and make their homes upon the chain of desolate Subantarctic islands. During the American INIu- seum's recent expedition to South Georgia, which lies within the ice-fields of the South Atlantic, two species of penguins were intimately encountered — exhibited daily at Weber's Theatre in New York City during one of the spring months. It is to be noted that none of the species pictured by Sir Douglas ISIawson (the Adelie, emperor, gentoo, Victoria, king and royal) nor those de- scribed by Mr. Murphy have ever been kept in zoological gardens, although a few unsuccessful attempts have been made with the king penguin in Europe. One can study in the New York Zoo- logical Park at the present time several speci- mens of the blackfooted penguin (Speniscus demersus) from South Africa (purchased through German dealers).— The Editor. 225

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