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wings are formed much as in the others, but feem longer in 

 proportion : the legs fcaly and black. 



Some of thefe are much paler in plumage, and the yellow lefs 

 vivid than in others, which are perhaps the females, if not the 

 young birds. 

 Place and This fpecies was firft met with in Falkland IJlands, and has 



Manners. a Ifo been feen in Kergnehn's Land, New Georgia, and New 

 Guinea *. M. Bougainville caught one, which foon became fo 

 tame as to follow and know the perfon who had care of it : it 

 fed on flejh, fijh, and bread, but after a time grew lean, pined 

 away, and died. The chief food, when at large, is thought to 

 be fijh\ the remains of which, as well as crabs, Jhell-fijh, and 

 mollufca, were found in the ftomach. This fpecies is the fatten: 

 of the tribe ; moft fo in January, when they moult. Suppoled to 

 lay and fit in Offober. Are met with in the moft deferted places. 

 Their flefh is black, though not very unpalatable. This has 

 been confidered as a folitary fpecies t, but has now and then 

 been met with in confiderable flocks J. Are found in the 

 fame places as the Papuan Pinguins, and not unfrequently mixed 

 with them -, but in general fhew a difpofition of aflbciating with 

 their own fpecies. 



* Sermerat. — Forft. Voy. ii. 214. 528. -f Bougainville. 



X Cook's loft Voy. i. p. 87. — Pinguins were feen by thoufands in New Tear't 

 JJland, near Staaten Land, of which more than 500 were had by the Ihip's com- 

 pany for food. 



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