PINGUIN. 391 



Some are much paler in plumage, and the yellow less bright than 

 in others, and perhaps are the females, if not young birds. 



This species was first met with in Falkland Islands, also in 

 Kerguelen's Land, New Georgia, and New Guinea.* M. Bou- 

 gainville caught one, which soon became so tame, as to follow, and 

 know the person who had the care of it ; and fed on flesh, fish, and 

 bread, but after a time grew lean, pined away and died ; the chief 

 food, when at large, is supposed to be fish ; the remains of which, 

 as well as crabs, shell fish, and molluscae, were found in the stomach. 

 This is the fattest of the Genus ; most so in January, when they 

 moult; lay and sit in October; are met with in the most deserted 

 places ; the flesh is black, though not very unpalatable : has been 

 considered as a solitary species,f but now and then met with in 

 considerable flocks; J are found in the same places as the Papuan and 

 Crested ones, and not unfrequently mixed with them ; but in general 

 associate with their own species, which are said to lay their eggs in 

 holes in the ground ; hence we may suppose that the different species 

 vary one from another in this particular. 



11. -COLLARED PINGUIN. 



Aptenodytes torquata, Ind. Orn. ii. 880. Gm. Lin. i. 558. Com. Goett. iii. 146. 

 Manchot a collier de la nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. 181. pi. 114. 

 Collared Pinguin, Gen. Syn. vi. 571. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Bill like that of the Patagonian 

 Pinguin, and black ; irides black ; eye surrounded with an oval, bare, 

 blood-coloured skin, three times as large as the eye itself; head, 

 throat, neck behind, and sides, back, wings, and tail, black ; neck 

 before, breast, belly, and thighs, white, extending round the neck, 



* Son. Voy. Forst. Voy. ii. 214. 528. f Bougainville. 



% Cook's last Voy. i. p. 87. Pinguins were seen by thousands in New Year's Island, 

 near Staaten Land, of which more than 500 were had by the ship's company for food. 



