ORDER PALMIPEDES. 639 



Desolation, and at the Cape of Good Hope. This bird, in- 

 stead of walking, transports itself from place to place, by 

 leaps and bounds. This circumstance probably induced 

 Bougainville to attribute more vivacity to it than to the other 

 species. These birds live in families, on lofty rocks, and 

 make their nests there. They lay but one egg. This is the 

 Crested Pinguin of Latham. 



Aptenodytes Demersa, Cape Pinguin of Latham, is the 

 type of our author's spheniscus. 



These birds, whose digestive tube is very long, take so 

 much food at a time, that they are frequently forced to dis- 

 gorge it. When they swim, their head alone is visible above 

 the water, and they catch fish with the most astonishing facility. 

 They remain six months at sea, but during summer and 

 autumn, they pass the greatest part of the day in the weeds 

 about the coast. With their bills they form holes of two or 

 three feet in depth, the entrance to which is very low, and 

 tolerably broad. There they live, and the females lay two or 

 three eggs, of a dirty yellow, about the size of turkey-eggs. 

 Early in the morning, and in the evening, they sally forth to 

 fish, and on their return, form in flocks along the shore, 

 where they send forth cries like the braying of an ass, and 

 nearly as loud. When walking in the paths which they form 

 through the weeds on the coast, they make a noise like the 

 trot of a little horse. They can be killed with short sticks, 

 but care must be taken to avoid the strokes of their bill, 

 which will often draw blood. They are found at the Cape, 

 Penguin Isle, the Malouines, &c. 



We come now to the family of the Longipennes, or high- 

 flying Palmipedes. 



The Petrels have received this denomination, whim- 

 sically enough. Besides the faculty of swimming, they pos- 

 sess that of supporting themselves on the water, by striking 



