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Their colour is a futty brown, with a ffreenifh bill and feet; _ '776« 



J ' c> December* 



and, doubtlefs, they are the fame that the Spaniards call ' ' 



quebrantahnejjos, whofe head is figured in Pernetty's Voyage, 

 to Falkland Iflands *. 



Of the albatrofTes, none were found on fliore except the 

 grey one, which is commonly met with at fea in the higher 

 Southern latitudes. Once I faw one of thefe fitting in the 

 cliiF of a rock, but they were frequently flying about the 

 harbour; and the common large fort, as well as a fmaller 

 with a black face, were feen farther out. 



Penguins form, by far, the greatefl: number of birds here; 

 and are of three forts : The firft, or largeft, I have feen 

 formerly at the illand of Georgia f. It is alfo mentioned by 

 Bougainville :|: ; but it does not feem to be fo folitary as he 

 reprefents it, for we found confiderable numbers flocking 

 together. The head is black, the upper part of the body a 

 leaden grey, and the under part white, with black feet. It 

 has two broad flripes of fine yellow, that begin on the fides 

 of the head, and dcfcending by each fide of the neck, meet 

 above its breaft. The bill is partly reddifli, and longer than 

 in the other forts. 



The fecond fort of penguin fcarcely exceeds half the fize 

 of the former. The upper part of the body is a blackifli 

 grey, with a white fpot on the upper part of the head, 

 growing broader at each fide. The bill and feet are yel- 

 lowifh. A very accurate figure and defcription, both of this 

 and of the preceding, is given by Mr. Sonncrat §. 



* Fig. 3. Plate VIII. 



■f- Pennant's Patagonian penguin. See his Genera of Birds. Tab. 14. p. 66;- 



X Voyage autour dii Monde., p. 69. 



§ Voyage a la Nonvdle Guin'ee, p. 18 1, 182. Tab. 113. 115. 



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