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Aptenodytes chryfocome, Commentat. Gott. iii. p. 135. pi. 1. 

 Le Manchot fauteur, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 409. 



— huppe de Siberie, PL Enl. 984. 

 Hopping Penguin, Boug. Voy. p. 64, 65. — Phil. Trait/, lxvi. p. i, 



Br. Muf. 



*"pHIS beautiful fpecies meafures twenty-three inches in 

 length. The bill is three inches long j the colour of it red, 

 with a dark furrow running along on each fide to the tip ; the 

 upper mandible is curved at the end, the under obtufe : irides 

 of a dull red : the head, neck, back, and fides, are black : over 

 each eye a ftripe of pale yellow feathers, which lengthens into 

 a creft behind, of near four inches in length j the feathers on 

 each fide of the head, above this ftripe, are longer than the 

 reft, and ftand upward, while thofe of the creft are decumbent, 

 but can be ere&ed on each fide at will * : the wings, or rather 

 fins, are black on the outfide, edged with white ; on the infide 

 white : the breaft, and all the under parts, white : the legs are 

 orange : claws dufky. 



The female has a ftreak of pale yellow over the eye, but it is 

 not prolonged into a creft behind as in the male. 



Inhabits Falkland's IJlands, and was likewife met with in Kergue- 

 ten's Land, or IJle of Defolation, as well as at Van. Biemen's Land, and 

 New Holland, particularly in Adventure Bay. Are called Hopping 

 Pinguins, and Jumping Jacks, from their adlion of leaping quite out 

 of the water, on meeting with the leaft obftacle, for three or four 

 feet at leaft; and indeed, without any feeming caufe, do the fame 



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