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PATAGONIAN PENGUIN. 



(Aptenodytes Patagonica.) 



Ap. rostro pedibusque nigris, macula ad aures utrinque flavo- 



aured collum ambiente. 

 Penguin with the beak and legs black, and a golden yellow spot 



near the ears, on each side, encompassing the neck. 

 Aptenodytes Patagonica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 556. Lath. hid. 



Orn. ]. 878. 

 Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinee. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 1 79. pi. 1 13. 

 Grand Manchot des isles Malouines. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 



399. pi. 30. Buff. PI. Enl. 975. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1.513. 

 Patagonian Penguin. Forster, Voy. 2. 214. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



6. 563. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 390. 



The Patagonian Penguin is thus commemorated 

 by Latham : — " This is the largest of the species 

 known, being four feet three inches in length, and 

 stands erect at least three feet ; the weight forty 

 pounds : the beak is four inches and a half in length, 

 more slender in proportion than in any of the species, 

 and bends towards the tip ; the colour of it black 

 for two-thirds of the length, and from thence to the 

 point yellowish ; the under mandible orange at the 

 base and black at the tip : the tongue is half the 

 length of the beak, and armed on each side with 

 spikes turning backwards : the irides are hazel : the 

 head, throat, and hind part of the neck are of a deep 

 brown : the back of a deep ash-colour, each feather 

 bluish at the tip : the under parts are pure white : 

 on each side of the head, beginning under the eye, 

 and behind it, is a broad stripe of fine yellow ; this 

 advances forward as it proceeds down the neck, where 



