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THE PATAGONIAN PENGUIN. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill {Irait, flightly bent at the tip. 



Nostrils linear. 



Tongue aculeated backwards. 



Wings ufelefs for flight. 



Feathers extremely fmall. 



Legs placed extremely backwards. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Cinereous-brown Penguin, fpeckled with lead-colour, white beneath, with 

 blackifh head, and a longitudinal yellow band on each fide the neck. 



Patagonian Penguin. 



Lath. S^'nops. 3. />. ^6^. 

 Le grand Manchot. 



Biijf. ois. 9. o. 399. fl JO. 



AMONGST quadrupeds there are fbme particular fpecies which in point 

 of external appearance, feem to make an approach to creatures of a 

 very different nature : thus the Manis has fo much the appearance and make 

 of a lizard, that if outward form alone was confidered, it might be looked 

 upon as conftituting the conned;ing link between the proper or viviparous 

 quadrupeds and lizards. 



The Jerboa has the ufual aftions and attitudes of a bird ; ftanding generally 

 on its hind legs, and only making ufe of the fore-feet occafionally to hold 

 its food. The fame is the cafe with the Kanguroo, and with two or three 

 other fpecies of the fame genus. The Bat may alfo be adduced as an ex- 

 ample of a quadruped of an anomalous nature, and poflelTed of the power 



of 



