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to tail, are black : fides of the head and throat dirty grey : breaft, 

 belly, thighs, and under the tail, white : the finny wings are 

 black above, white on the lower edge, and white varied with 

 black beneath : tail fhort and cuneiform : legs furnifhed with 

 four toes ; the inner placed high up, and on the infide of the 

 foot : the colour of the legs, membranes, and toes, black *. 



Ls Manchot tachete, Brif. Orit. vi. p. 99. t. 91 r. 



Le Manchot a bee tronque, Buf. Oif. he. p. 41 1. pi. 31. — PL Enl. 1005. +- Var. A. 



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



OIZE of the laft. Bill the fame: the upper part of the head, Description. 



neck, back, and rump, blackifh, each feather daihed with 

 deep black down the fhaft, and marked with very fmall whitifh 

 grey dots on each fide : on each fide of the head a ftripe of white, 

 beginning at the bafe of the bill, pafiing over the eyes to the 

 hind head, and joining with the white on the fides of the neck: 

 the fides of the head and throat are blackifh brown, marked, like 

 the back, with fmall dirty white fpecks, but lefs confpicuous : 

 on the breaft is an arched blackifh brown band, which paries in a 

 line on each fide quite to the thighs : the wings, tail, and legs, 

 as in the laft-defcribed j\ 



* Kolben fays, of a pale green. — In a drawing of the late Mr. Edwards, now 

 in my pofleffion, I obferve the legs to be red : we may conclude therefore that 

 the legs vary much in colour. 



f The above is BriJ/ia's defcription : that in Edivards differs in having the 

 black more inclined to brown, and wanting the whitilh fpots ; which alfo is the 

 cafe in a fpecimen in my own collection. 



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