5*6 P I N G U I N. 



low : the upper parts of the body are black, the under gloffy 

 white : beneath the chin a narrow blackifh ftreak, pafiing back- 

 wards towards the hind head, fomewhat bent about the region of 

 the ears : wings as in the others j above blue-black ; the lower 

 margin and infide white j tips black: tail cuneiform, the feathers, 

 or rather bridles, which compofe it, black, and thirty-two in num- 

 ber : legs flem-coloured : foles of the feet black. 

 Place and This fpecies inhabits the South Sea, from 48 degrees to the ant- 



artfic circle; and is frequently found on the ice mountains and 

 i/Iands, on which it afcends : it is a pretty numerous fpecies*. 

 Our laft voyagers found them in plenty in the ifle of Defolation. 

 And it was obferved, that in an ifland they touched at, not great- 

 ly diftant, the rocks were almofl covered with Pinguins and 

 .Shags j the firft molt probably of this fort f . 



5. Diomedea demerfa, Lin. Syji. 1. p. 214. 2. 



CAPE P. Le Manchot, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 97.— PL Enl. 382. 



Aptenodytes demerfa, Commentat. Gott. iii. p. 144. 

 Magellanic Goofe of Clufius, Will. Orn. p. 322 ? 

 Pinguin, Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 144. 

 Leffer Penguin, Phil. Tranf. lviii. p. 97. 

 Black-footed Penguin, Ed<w. pi. 94. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. C I Z E of a large Duck : length twenty-one inches. Bill black- 



ifh, crofled with a tranfverfe yellowifh band near the tip j the 



upper mandible is hooked ; from the bafe about half way is a 



furrow, in which the noftrils are placed ; the under mandible is 



truncated at the end : the upper parts of the bird, from the head 



* Torft. Fey. i. p. 98. f Ellis, Foy. L p. 6. 



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