IMFENKEB 



SPHBNISOUS 



517 



Eiver, p. 349, with plate (1861) ; Harris, Essays and Photographs, 

 pp. 197-206, pis. 49, 51, 53, 54, 55 (1901). 

 "Black-footed Penguin" of some authors. 



Description. Adult. — General colour above including the centre 

 of the forehead and crown, the back and tail, the upper surface of 

 the flippers, the sides of the face and throat and a horse shoe 

 shaped narrow band across the chest extending to the flanks, black ; 

 below, including a band on either side of the crown from the base of 

 the bill along the sides of the neck and flanks above the horse-shoe 



Fig. 159.- 



-Sphenisciis dennirsus, from a photograph taken from life by 

 Mr. Harris. 



shaped marking and a rounded spot on the tail white ; flipper chiefly 

 white below with a very narrow white edging anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly. Tail of twenty feathers. 



Iria hazel; bill black with- a transverse bar of grey across both 

 mandibles ; naked skin about the eye grey, at the base of the bill 

 usually pink, sometimes bluish ; legs black with grey patches. 



Length about 24-5 ; flipper 6-75 ; culmen 2-5 ; middle toe and 

 claw 3'0. The sexes are alike. A young bird is dark above and 



