P I N G U I N. 



5 6 3 



Aptenodytes patachonica, Commentat. Gott. iii, p. 137. t. 2. a. 



Miller's lllujlr. pi. 20. PATAGONIAN 



Manchot de la N. Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 179. t. 113. 

 Le grand Manchot, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 399. pi. 30. 

 Manchot des Mes Malouines, PI. Enl. 975. » 



Firft Clafs of Penguins, Boug . Voy. p. 64. 



Patagonian Penguin, Phil. Tranf. Iviii. p. 91. pi. 5.— Gen. of Birds, p. 

 66. pi. 14. — Gent. Mag. xxxix. pi. in p. 489. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



'"PHIS is the largeft of the genus yet known, being four Description.' 



feet three inches in length ; and ftands erect at leaft three 

 feet; the weight forty pounds. The bill is four inches and a 

 half in length, more flender in proportion than in any of the 

 fpecies, and bends towards the tip ; the colour of it black for two- 

 thirds of the length, and from thence to the point yellowifh ; 

 the under mandible orange at the bafe, and black at the tip : 

 the tongue is half the length of the bill, and armed on each 

 fide with fpikes, turning backward : the irides are hazel : 

 the head, throat, and hind part of the neck, are of a deep 

 brown : the back of a deep afh-colour, each feather blueifh at 

 the tip: the under parts are pure white : on each fide the head, 

 beginning under theeye, and behind it, is a broad ftripe of fine 

 yellow ; this advances forward as it proceeds down the neck, 

 where it grows narrower and paler, and at laft blends itfelf with 

 the white on the bread ; this appearance however is only when 

 the neck is ftretched, for the Hate in which the bird ufually carries 

 itfelf is with the head rather crouched in between the fhoulders, 

 when the yellow appears incircling the neck as a necklace : the 



4 C 2 wings 



