558 ' CLASS AVES. 



bill, reel ; young, bill, dusky. North Coast of Ame- 

 rica and Asia. 



To these may probably be added, 



Ancient Auk. Alca Antiqua, Gmel. 



Blackish ; belly, white ; cervical feather, long, linear, 

 white. North Coast of America ; and 



Genus Cerorhinca, Ch. Bonaparte. 



Bill, curved, compressed, longer than high, sur- 

 mounted at the base by a long blunt process ; nostrils 

 pervious, not feathered ; intermediate between Pka- 

 leris and Mormon. 



Phaleris Cerorhinca, Bonap. Cerorhinca Occiden- 

 talism Bonap. Amer. Orn. iv. t. 



Blackish ; belly, whitish ; a few slender elongated 

 white feathers at the corner of the eyes and mouth ; 

 bill, yellow. West Coast of America. 



The Penguins, properly so called, Alca.* Cuv. 



Have the bill more elongated, and in form of the 

 blade of a knife ; there are feathers at the base of it, 

 as far as the nostrils ; their wings are decidedly too 

 small to support them, and they therefore never fly. 

 We sometimes see on our coast in the winter 

 time 



* Alca, Alk, Auk, the name of the Penguin, in the Feroe Islands and 

 in the North of Scotland. That of Penguin given first by the Dutch, 

 indicates their oily secretion. See Clusius, Ex. 101. It is Buflfbn who 

 has transferred this name exclusively to the northern Auk. 



