PINGUIN. 387 



Inhabits the South Seas, also the Cape of Good Hope; thought 

 to be the last in imperfect plumage. 



5— LITTLE PINGUIN.— Pl. clxxx. 



Aptenodytes minor, Ind. Orn. ii. 881. Gm. Lin. i. 558. Com. Goett. iii. 147. 

 Spheniscus, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. Anal. p. cxiii. 

 Small Penguin, Cook's last Voy. i. 151. 

 Little Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 572. pl. 103. 



SIZE of a Teal ; length fifteen inches. Bill one inch and a half 

 long, dusky, the under mandible a trifle truncated, base blue; all 

 the upper parts of the bird cinereous blue, the ends of the feathers 

 being of that colour ; but the remaining part brown black, and 

 the shafts quite black ; round the eye, and a little way below on each 

 side, is abed of pale, brownish ash-colour; under parts from the 

 chin to the vent white; wings dusky, beneath white; tail very short, 

 consisting of sixteen stiff" feathers, but is scarcely perceivable ; legs 

 dull red ; webs dusky, claws black. 



Inhabits the rocks in the south part of New Zealand, but in the 

 greatest plenty at Dusky Bay. They make deep burrows on the 

 sides of the hills, in which they lay their eggs ; these holes are so 

 thick in some parts, that a person is scarcely able to walk three or 

 four steps without falling into one of them up to the knees. The 

 inhabitants of Queen Charlotte's Sound kill the birds with sticks, 

 and after skinning them, esteem the flesh good food ; are known by 

 the name of Korora. They are apt to vary in size and colour ; some 

 are only thirteen inches long ; others larger, and plain lead-colour 

 on the upper parts, and the wings black ; though all are white, or 

 nearly so, beneath ; the legs, too, marked with black at the ends 

 of the toes. 



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