390 PINGUIN. 



10.— PATAGONIAN PINGUIN. 



Aptenodytes Patachonica, Ind. Om. ii. 878. Gm. Lin. i. 556. Com. Goett. iii. 137. t. 2. 



T. F. Miller, III. t. 20. Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. Anal, cxiii. 

 Pinguinaria Patachonica, Mus. Lev. t. 11. Nat. Misc. pi. 409. 

 Grand Mancbot, Buf. ix. 399. PI. enl. 975. 

 Manchot de la nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. 179. t. 113. 

 Especie de Paxara, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p. 29. lam. 50. 

 First Class of Penguins, Bong. Voy. p. 64. 

 Patagonian Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 563. Phil. Trans, lviii. 91. pi. 5. Gen. of Birds, 



66. pi. 4. Gent. Mag. xxxix. pi. p. 489. Naturf. I. s. 258. Wood's Zoogr. i. 



p. 568. pi. 25. 



THIS is the largest of the Genus yet known, being- four feet 

 and a quarter in length, and stands erect at least three ; weight forty 

 pounds. The bill four inches and a half long, slender in proportion, 

 and bends towards the tip ; colour black for two-thirds, the rest of 

 the length yellowish ; beneath orange at the base, and black at the 

 tip ; the feathers coming very forward on the nostrils ; the tongue 

 half the length of the bill, and armed on each side with spikes, 

 turning backwards ; irides hazel ; sides round the eye covered with 

 feathers; head, throat, and neck behind, deep brown ; the back deep 

 ash-colour, each feather bluish at the tip; under parts pure white; 

 on each side of the head, beginning under the eye, and behind it, a 

 broad stripe of fine yellow ; this advances forwards as it proceeds 

 down the neck, growing narrower, and paler ; and at last blends 

 itself with the white on the breast ; this appearance, however, is only 

 when the neck is stretched, for the state in which the bird usually 

 carries itself, is with the head rather crouched in between the shoul- 

 ders, when the yellow appears encircling the neck as a collar; the 

 wings are formed as in the others, but longer in proportion ; tail 

 conspicuous, three inches in length ; legs scaly and black, with three 

 toes only, all placed forwards. 



