382 PINGUIN. 



A. — Spheniscus nsevius, Bris. vi. 99. t. ix. Id. 8vo. ii. 386. Gerin. v. t. 498. 

 Manchot a bee tronque, Buf. ix. 411. pi. 31. PI. enl. 382. 

 Black-footed Pengin, Edw. pi. 94. f. 1. Gen. Syn. vi. 567. 5. A. 



In this the plumage on the upper parts is blackish, the feathers 

 dashed with deep black down the shafts, and marked with very 

 small, whitish grey dots on the margins; on each side of the head 

 a stripe of white, beginning at the base of the bill, passing over the 

 eyes to the hindhead, and joining with the white on the sides of the 

 neck ; sides of the head and throat blackish brown, marked like 

 the back, with small, dirty white specks, but less conspicuous ; on 

 the breast an arched, blackish brown band, passing in a line on each 

 side, quite to the thighs : the wings, tail, and legs, as in the former.* 



B.— Pinguin a lunettes, Pernet. Voy. ii. 17. pi. 7. f. 3. Id. Engl. p. 243. pi. 15. 

 Gen. Syn. vi. 563. Var. B. 



In the Leverian Museum I observed a farther Variety, in which 

 the crown of the head, hind part of the neck, and all the upper parts, 

 are black ; the under mostly white, except the chin, which is black, 

 and surrounds the eye as in the last ; but at such a distance, and in 

 so circular a manner, as greatly to give the appearance of wearing 

 a pair of spectacles : it has the same band over the breast, and 

 passing down on each side to the thighs, as the last described. 



The two first are supposed to be male and female, and perhaps 

 such as vary from those descriptions may prove the young birds of 

 one or other sex. 



These are found in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, particularly in Robben, or Penguin Isle, near Saldanie Bay. 

 Like all of the Genus this is an excellent swimmer and diver, but 

 hops and flutters in a strange awkward manner on the land, and, 



* Edwards's bird differs, in having the black more inclined to brown, and wanting the 

 whitish spots ; which also was the case in a specimen in my own collection. 



