ORDER PALMIPEDES. 563 



Southern Apteriv. Apterix Australis, Shaw, Misc. 

 t. 1057, 1058. Apterous Penguin, Lath. H. 



Bill, slender, grooved its whole length ; wing, reduced 

 to a short spur ; body, covered with hair-like feathers. 



Spheniscus.* Briss. 



Have the bill compressed, straight, irregularly fur- 

 rowed at its base ; the end of the upper mandible 

 bent, that of the lower, truncated ; the nostrils in the 

 middle, and exposed. 



Cape Penguin, Lath. Apt. De'inersa, Gm. Enl. 

 382, and 1005. Apt. Torquata, Sonn. 1st Voy. t. 

 114, appears to be the female. 



Black, above ; white, underneath ; the bill, brown, 

 with a white band in the middle ; the male has a 

 white eyebrow ; the throat, black ; and a black line 

 on the breast, continued along each flank. It inha- 

 bits especially about the Cape, where it builds in the 

 rocks. See Edw. t. 94. f. 2. 



New Holland Penguin, Lath. H. Aptenodytes Aus- 

 tralis, Gray. New Holland, called Gur — Roo-mul. 



Mixed grey and brown above ; beneath, rufous white ; 

 bill, black. Length, two feet. 



The family of 



LONGIPENNES 



Includes the birds proper to the main ocean, which, 

 by means of their great capability of flight, are 



* A name given by Mcering to Fratercvla, and by Brisson to Apteno- 

 dytes, from <Tf>'\y, an angle, or corner. 



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