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inftead of legs, till it can recover its upright pofture ; crying out 

 at the fame time like a Goofe, but in a much hoarfer voice. Said 

 to clamber fome way up the rocks in order to make the neft ; in 

 doing which has been obferved to affift with the bill. The eggs 

 are two in number, white, as large as thofe of a Duck, and 

 reckoned delicious eating, at lead are thought fo at the Cape, 

 where they are brought in great numbers for that purpofe. At 

 this place the birds are often feen kept tame ; but in general they 

 do not furvive the confinement many months. 



Aptenodytes Magellanica, Commentat. 

 lllujlr. pi. 34. 



Gott. iii. p. 143. t. 5. — Miller's 



CIZE of the Antartlic Pinguin: length from two feet to two 

 feet fix inches : weight eleven pounds. The bill black, with 

 a tranfverfe band acrofs it near the tip ; the under mandible ob- 

 liquely truncated : irides red brown : fides of the head, beneath 

 the eye, and chin, black : from the bafe of the bill, through and 

 over the eye, a white ftreak, which furrounds the black on. the 

 fides of the head, and meets under the throat : except the above 

 markings, the reft of the head and neck are black ; of which co- 

 lour are the upper parts of the body and wings : the under parts 

 of the laft, and body, from the breaft, white, except a narrow 

 band of black, which paries at a little diftance within the white 

 on the breaft, and downwards on each fide, beneath the wings, 

 quite to the thighs : the legs are of a reddifh flefh-colour, fpotted 

 irregularly on the toes : claws black- 

 It feems to be greatly allied to the laft-defcribed, and to 

 differ in external appearance chiefly by having the middle of the 

 neck black all round. 

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