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REMARKS 



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THE 



ANIMAL it. Mr. Pennant's Magellanic pinguin, the two mifplaced Linna^aa 



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fpecies, and our three new fpecies, have increafed it confiderably. 

 The bill, though various in regard to thicknefs, has, however, the 

 fame charader in them all, except that fome fpecies have the lower 

 mandible truncated -, the noflrils are always linear apertures, which 

 further proves their diflincflion from the diomedea. The feet are 

 exadtly of the fame fliape in them all. They have only the rudiments, 

 of wings, enlarged by a membrane into a iin, and covered with a 

 kind of feathers, but fo clofely, that they feem like fcales. It is. 

 this, beiides the fhape of bill and feet, which diilinguifhes the ge- 

 nus of auks or murrs (alcce)^ from them 3 for thefe laft, though 

 fometimes incapable of flying, are only fo on account o^ thefiortr 

 nefsy not the ^^aV;?^' of quills. The body of the pinguins is enr 



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tirely covered with oblong, thick, hard, and gloify plumes, which 

 form a. coat of mail, impenetrable to wet, becaufe they are obliged 



to live almofl: continually in the fea 



They 



are con 



fined 



the 



temperate and frigid zones, at leaft I know of none between the 

 tropics. The genus of pelicans fpelecanusj might perhaps be fepar 

 rated into three genera with greater j uftice, than authors have ufed 



true pelican (onocrotalus) is 



many of their dilacerat 



The 



greatly different from all the refc of the fpecies : the man, of war 

 (p. aquilus) ; 



the 



gannet fp. bajfanus) -, and the feveral forts of 



boobies (p. fula, Jiber ^ pifcator,) form another divifion ; from 



which 



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