MAGELLANIC SPHENISQUE. 6.5 



dots on each web : on each side of the head is a stripe 

 of white, which commences at the base of the beak 

 and passes over the eyes to the occiput, and uniting 

 to the white on the sides of the neck : the sides of 

 the head and throat are blackish-brown, marked with 

 small dirty white spots: on the breast is an arched 

 blackish-brown band, which passes in a line on each 

 side quite to the thighs. 



Found in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope : 

 the female lays two white eggs, the size of those of a 

 Duck; they are reckoned delicious eating, and are 

 much prized : these birds are said to climb some way 

 up the rocks in order to make their nest, notwith- 

 standing the awkwardness of their manners : they 

 swim and dive admirably. 



MAGELLANIC SPHENISQUE. 



(Spheniscus Magellanicus. ) 



Sp. rostro nigro fascia purpurascente, super ciliis albis, Jascia pec- 

 tor ali et torque medio colli nigris. 



Sphenisque with the beak black, banded with purple, the eye- 

 brows white, a pectoral fascia and collar on the middle of the 

 neck black. 



Aptenodytes Magellanica. Gmel. St/sl. Nat. 1. 557. Lath. Lid. 

 Orn. 2. 880. 



Magellanic Penguin. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 569. Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 x. 383. 



Length from two feet to thirty inches : the beak 

 black, transversely banded near the tip : the irides 

 v. xiii. p. i. 5 



