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PINGUIN. 



GENUS CVIII — PINGUIN. 



1 Cape Pinguin 

 A Var: 



B Var. 



2 Magellanic 



3 Crested 



4 Red-footed 



5 Little 



6 New-Holland 



7 Chiloe 



8 Papuan 



9 Antarctic 



10 Patagonian 



11 Collared 



12 Hairy 



13 Woolly 



14 Three-toed 



15 Apterous 



jN the Pinguin Genus the bill is strong, straight, more or less 

 bending at the point, and furrowed on the sides. 



Nostrils placed in the furrows. Situation undetermined. 



Tongue covered with strong spines, pointing backwards. 



Wings small, and useless for flight, for the most part imitating 

 tins, covered with scaly feathers, in a few only a bare stump. 



Tail various, in some scarcely appearing beyond the rump. 



Legs short and thick, placed near the vent. 



Toes generally four in number, united by webs as in the Duck 

 Genus; in several the back toe wanting. 



This tribe of birds seems to hold the same place in the southern 

 parts of the world, as the Auks do in the northern ; but the one, by 

 no means to be confounded with the other, however authors may 

 differ in opinion on this point. 



The Pinguin is seen only in the temperate and Frigid Zones, on 

 that side of the Equator which it frequents ; and the same is 

 observed of the Auk in the opposite latitudes; and neither of the 

 Genera has yet been observed between the Tropics.* 



The Auk has true wings and quills, though small, and, one only 

 excepted, capable of flight ; but the Pinguin has mere fins, instead 



* Saw one for the first time in lat. 48. S. Forst. Voy. i. p. 92. Not met with nearer 

 than 40 deg. S. Id. lb. — See Introd. Disc, on Penguin's, Comm. Goett. vol. 3. Clayton's 

 Account of Falkland Islands. Phil. Trans, vol. 66. p. 99. 



