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irides yellow, or pale red ; the head and half the neck dusky black, 

 inclining to blue ; on each side, over the eye, a large patch of white, 

 tending backwards to the hindhead, but not surrounding the eye 

 below ; across the top of the head a narrow bar of white, uniting the 

 patches on each side ; the under parts from the neck are also white, 

 and the upper bluish black ; the wings black, the lower edge and 

 inside white; tail cuneiform, the middle feather seven inches in 

 length ; legs red, in some yellow, webs dusky, claws black. 



Inhabits the Isle of Papos, or New Guinea; likewise Falkland 

 Isles, and Kere,uelen's Land. 



9— ANTARCTIC PINGUIN. 



Aptenodytes antarctica, Ind. Orn. ii. 879. Gm.Lin*\. 557. Com. Goett. iii. 141. t. 4. 

 Antarctic Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 565. Forst. Voy. i> 98. 



SIZE of the Magellanic Species. Bill nearly three inches long, 

 and black; the under mandible somewhat truncated; irides pale 

 yellow ; upper parts of the body black, the under glossy white : 

 beneath the chin a narrow, blackish streak, passing backwards 

 towards the hindhead, somewhat bent about the ears; wing blue 

 black, edge and inside white, tip black ; tail cuneiform, of thirty- 

 two feathers, black, very stout, narrow, and imitating bristles; legs 

 flesh-colour, soles black. 



This species inhabits the South Sea, from 48 deg. to the Antarctic 

 Circle : is frequently found on the Ice Mountains and Islands, on 

 which it ascends ; and is pretty numerous : voyagers have found them 

 in plenty in the Isle of Desolation ; and in an Island not far distant, 

 the rocks were almost covered with Pinguins and Shags ; the first 

 were most probably of this sort. 



