IMPENNES 



SPHENISCUS 



517 



River, p. 349, with plate (1861) ; Harris, Essays and Photographs, 

 pp. 197-206, pis. 49, 51, 53, 54, 55 (1901). 

 "Black-footed Penguin" of some authors. 



Description. Adult. General colour above including the centre 

 of the forehead and crown, the back and tail, the upper surface of 

 the flippers, the sides of the face and throat and a horse shoe 

 shaped narrow band across the chest extending to the flanks, black ; 

 below, including a band on either side of the crown from the base of 

 the bill along the sides of the neck and flanks above the horse-shoe 



FIG. 159. Splieniscus demursns, from a photograph taken from life by 

 Mr. Harris. 



shaped marking and a rounded spot on the tail white ; flipper chiefly 

 white below with a very narrow white edging anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly. Tail of twenty feathers. 



Iris hazel; bill black with a transverse bar of grey across both 

 mandibles ; naked skin about the eye grey, at the base of the bill 

 usually pink, sometimes bluish ; legs black with grey patches. 



Length about 24 - 5 ; flipper 6'75 ; culmen 2 - 5 ; middle toe and 

 claw 3*0. The sexes are alike. A young bird is dark above and 



