408 AVES. 



which arises from the nostril terminates obliquely on the inferior 



third of its edge. 



Apt. chrysocoma, Gm.j Le Gorfou sauteur^ Enl. 984; Vieill. 

 Gal. 298. (The Jumping Gorfu.) As large as a stout 

 Duck, black above, white beneath, and has a white or yellow 

 tuft on each side of its occiput. Found in the vicinity of the 

 Falkland Islands and of New Holland. It sometimes leaps out 

 of the water while swimming, and lays its eggs in a hole on the 

 shore.(l) 



Spheniscus, Briss.(2) 



A compressed and straight bill, irregularly furrowed at base; 

 end of the upper mandible hooked, that of the lower one truncated; 

 the nostrils exposed and placed in the middle. 



Apt. demersa, Gm. ; Sphenisque du Cap, Enl. 382, and 1005. 

 Black above, white beneath; the bill brown with a white band 

 on the middle; the male has a white eye-brow, black throat and 

 a black line on the breast, which continues along each flank. 

 Found near the cape where it breeds among the rocks.(3) 



FAMILY II. 



LONGIPENNES, 



This family includes those birds of the high seas, which 

 from their immense strength of wing are to be met with in 

 every latitude. They are known by the freedom or nullity 

 of the thumb, by their very long wings, and by their bill 

 which is not notched but hooked at the point in the first ge- 

 nera, and simply pointed in the others. Their inferior larynx 

 has but one peculiar muscle on each side, their gizzard is mus- 

 cular and their cseca short. 



Procellaria, Lin. 

 The Petrels have a bill hooked at the end, the extremity of which 



(1) Add Jpt. catarrhactes, Edw., 49; .S. papua, Sonner. Voy. I, pi. 115, and 

 Vieill. Gal. 299; .4. minor. Lath. Syn. Ill, pi. 103. 



(2) Spheniscus, a name given by Moehringto the Oidemia, and by Brisson to the 

 Penguins; from 1<phv (wedge). 



(3) Aptenod. torquaia, Sonner. Voy. 1, 114, appears to be the female of the ^pt. 

 demersa. 



