GS 



NEW HOLLAND SPHENISQUE. 



(Spheniscus Novee Hollandiae.) 



Sp. rostro nigro, pedibus fusco-incarnatis, corpore supra fusco 



pennis apice griseo, subtus gulaque albo. 

 Sphenisque with a black beak, brown flesh-coloured legs, the 



body brown above, with the tips of the feathers grey, beneath 



and throat white. 

 New Holland Penguin. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 388. 



" Length two feet or more : beak black, the upper 

 mandible hooked at the tip, the under truncated : 

 plumage above brown, the feathers tipped with grey, 

 giving a mixed appearance : chin, throat, and the 

 rest of the parts beneath rufous-white : wings brown : 

 legs pale flesh-coloured brown : webs black. Inhabits 

 New Holland." — Latham. 



I cannot quit this curious family without noticing 

 the following extraordinary birds (which are de- 

 scribed in the new edition of Dr. Latham's Synopsis), 

 whose location I am at a loss to fix : from his descrip- 

 tion I suspect they must either be the young of some 

 other species, or form the types of a new genus, espe- 

 cially if he be correct in saying that they possess but 

 three toes. The first is the 



Hairy Penguin. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 392. 



" Length two feet six inches : beak three inches 

 and a half ; black ; the upper mandible bent at the 



