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tip, with a furrow running the whole of its length, 

 but no appearance of nostrils: tongue half the length 

 of the beak, armed with numerous spikes, tending 

 backwards : in the palate a long cleft, passing deep 

 into the beak : eyelids prominent, but the parts round 

 them covered with short downy hairs : the whole bird, 

 otherwise, covered with a thick-set hair, having no 

 resemblance either to down or feathers : for the most 

 part two inches in length : wings hanging down, and 

 covered in the same manner, but the hair short in 

 proportion : tail not distinguishable from the rest of 

 the plumage : colour of the whole uniform brown, 

 not paler, as is usual in other birds, beneath : legs 

 very stout and scaly, deep brown, webbed quite to 

 the toes, which are' three in number, all placed for- 

 wards : claws stout and black, the middle one sharp 

 at the inner edge. Inhabits South America." 

 The second is the 



Woolly Penguin. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 392. pi, 181. 



" The total length of this singular bird is two feet 

 eight inches ; in shape, as it stands upright, giving 

 the idea of a bottle. The beak to the gape three 

 inches and three quarters ; bare space beneath it an 

 inch and a half; pale brownish-yellow, with a blackish 

 point ; from the base to about one-third, a finely gra- 

 nulated skin or cere, and a seam continued to the 

 point, but the nostrils are not clearly distinguishable ; 

 from the point of the beak to the eye four inches and 

 a quarter : whole length of the wing one foot ; to 

 the head six inches : body in general covered with a 

 kind of downy brown fur, in some parts three inches 

 in length : orbits somewhat downy, but not quite 



