PINGUIN. 383 



if hurried, stumbles perpetually ; will frequently run for some 

 distance like a quadruped, making use of the finny wings instead 

 of legs, till it can recover its upright posture, crying out like a 

 Goose, but in a much hoarser voice. Said to clamber some way up 

 the rocks to make the nest, in doing which has been observed to 

 assist with the bill. It lays two white eggs, the size of those of the 

 Duck, which are thought to be delicious, and brought in great 

 numbers for the table. These birds are often kept tame, but in 

 general do not survive the confinement many months. 



2— MAGELLANIC PINGUIN. 



Aptenodytes Magellanica, hid. Om. ii. S80. Gm. Lin. i. 557. Com. Goett. iii. 143. 



t. 5. J. F. Miller III. t. 34. 

 Magellanic Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 569. 



LENGTH two feet or more ; weight eleven pounds. Bill 

 black, with a transverse band across the tip ; under mandible 

 obliquely truncated ; irides red brown ; sides of the head, beneath 

 the eye, and the chin, black ; from the base of the bill, through 

 and over the eye, a white streak, surrounding the black on the sides 

 of the head, and meeting on the throat ; the rest of the head and 

 neck, the upper parts of the body, and wings, black ; wings 

 beneath, and body, from the breast, white, except a narrow band 

 of black, which passes at a little distance within the white on the 

 breast, and downwards on each side, quite to the thighs ; the legs 

 reddish flesh-colour, spotted irregularly on the toes ; claws black. 



It seems to be much allied to the last, differing chiefly in having 

 the middle of the neck black all round, and the feet spotted. 



Inhabits the Straits of Magalhaen, Staatenland, Terra del Fuego, 

 and Falkland Isles, and is a very numerous species ; often seen by 

 thousands retiring at night to the highest parts. The voice not 

 unlike the braying of an ass. Is not timid, for it will scarcely get 



