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408 AVES. 
which arises from the nostril terminates Piauslg on the inferior 
third of its edge. 
Apt. chrysocoma, Gm.; Le Gorfou sauteur, Enl. 9845 Vieill. 
Gal. 298. (The Snsrigiisis 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.(1) 
cal 
SpHEniscus, Briss.(2) 
A compressed and straight bill, irregularly furrowed at bases; 
end of the upper mandible hooked, that of the lower one truncated; 
the nostrils exposed and placed in the middle. ? 
Apt. demersa, Gm.; Sphénisque du Cap, Enl. 382, and 1005. 
Black above, white hepaaths 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 I. 
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 ceca short. | 
ProceLuaRria, Lin. 
The Petrels have a bill hooked at the end, the extremity of which 
(1) Add Apt. catarrhactes, Edw., 49;—A. papua, Sonner. Voy. I, pl. 115, and 
Vieill. Gal. 299;—.4. minor, Lath. Syn. II, pl. 103. 
(2) Spheniscus, a name given by Meehring to the Oidemia, and by Brissonto the 
Penguins; from =¢oxv (wedge). 
(3) Aptenod. torquata, Sonner. Voy. I, 114, appears to be the feticand of the ae 
demersa. a 
