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among them, in order to provide ourfelves with eggs, we were 

 regarded indeed with fide-long glances, but we carried no ter- 

 ror with us. 



" The eggs are rather larger than thofe of a Coqfe, and laid 

 in pairs. When we took them once, and fornetimes twice in a 

 feafon, they were as often replaced by the birds ; but prudence 

 would not permit us to plunder too far, left a future fupply in the 

 next year's brood might be prevented." They lay fome time in 

 November, driving away the Albatrojfes, which have hatched 

 their young in turn before them. The eggs were thought pa- 

 latable food, and were preferved good for three or four months. 



Aptenodytes torquata, Commentat. Gott. iii. p. 146. » 



Le Manchot a collier de la Nouv. Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 181. t. i!4- COLLARED P. 



A TRIFLE lefs than the Papuan Pinguin: length eighteen Description, 



inches. Bill faftiioned fomewhat like that of the Patagonian 

 Pinguin, and black : irides black : the eye furrounded with a 

 bare lkin of a blood-colour, in fhape oval, and three times as 

 large as the eye itfeif : the head, throat, hind part of the neck, 

 and fides, back, wings, and tail, black : fore part of the neck, 

 breaft, belly, and thighs, white, extending round the neck, where 

 the white begins, like a collar, except that it does not quite 

 meet at the back part : legs black. 



Inhabits New Guinea. Seen alfo by Dr. Forfier near Ker- P&aci. 



guelen's Land; and again on two ifles adjoining to the ifland of 

 South Georgia. 



4 D 2 Phaeton 



