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of wings, and in more than one instance not outwardly apparent, 

 and consisting of little more than a stump ; on this account none of 

 the Genus are capable of flying at all. The Pinguin, while swim- 

 ming, sinks quite above the breast, the head and neck only appearing 

 out of the water, rowing itself with its finny wings as with oars ; 

 while the Auk, in common with most other birds, swims on the 

 surface. Several other circumstances, peculiar to each, might be 

 mentioned ; but the above will be fully sufficient to characterise 

 the Genus. 



1— CAPE PINGUIN. 



A ptenodytes deinersa, hid. Orn. ii. 879. Gm. Lin. i. 557. N. Comm. Goett. iii. 144. 2. 



Diomedea demersa, Lin. i. 214. Bor. iii. p. 28. 2. Spaloivsk. iii. t. 24. 



Spheniseus, Bris. vi. 97. Id. 8vo. ii. 385. Tern. Man. Anal, cxiii. 



Anser Magellanicus Clusii, Will. 242. 



Plautus pinguis, Klein, Av. 147. 



Penguin, or Magellanic Goose, Will. Engl. 322, 



Black-footed Penguin, Edw. pi. 94. f. 2. Kolb. Cap. ii. 144. 



Lesser Pinguin, Ph. Tr. Iviii. 97. 2. Sparrm. Voy. i. p. 24. 



Cape Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 566. 



THIS and the Red-footed Species were, till of late years, the 

 only two known. The Cape one is twenty-one inches in length. 

 Bill blackish, crossed with a transverse yellowish band near the tip. 

 the upper mandible hooked ; from the base, about half way, is a 

 furrow, in which the nostrils are placed ; the under mandible trun- 

 cated at the end ; the plumage on the upper parts from head to tail 

 black ; sides of the head and throat dirty grey ; breast, belly, thighs, 

 and under the tail, white ; in the place of wings two short appendages 

 like fins; black above; white on the lower edge, and white varied 

 with black beneath; tail short, and cuneiform ; legs black,* furnished 

 with four toes ; the hind one placed high up, and inwards. 



* Kolben says pale green. In a drawing of the late Mr. Edwards in my possession, the 

 legs are red ; we may therefore conclude that the legs vary much in colour. 



