394 PINGUIN. 



Inhabits Chili, and lays five or six white eggs, spotted with 

 black, placing them on the sand ; the skin said to separate easily 

 from the body, and perhaps, as the plumage consists of fine hair 

 rather than feather, might be made use of for clothing. The natives 

 give it the name of the Infant, from the manner of walking, its gait 

 being unsteady, like that of a child. The flesh is not esteemed. 



15— APTEROUS PINGUIN. 



Apterix Australis, Southern Apterix, Shaic's Zool. xxiv. pi. 1057, 1058. Tern. Man. 

 Ed. 2d. Anal. p. cxiv. 



SIZE of a Goose; length two feet and a half Bill yellowish 

 brown, long, and slender, somewat in the form of the Patagonian 

 Species; length from the gape to the tip six inches and three quarters, 

 at the base rather stout, and covered with a kind of cere; it is also 

 a trifle enlarged at the end, and somewhat curved ; the under man- 

 dible shutting beneath the upper ; the nostrils linear, near the tip of 

 the bill, scarcely to be detected, placed at the end of a tubular 

 furrow;* plumage ferruginous grey; the feathers not greatly unlike 

 those of the New-Holland Cassowary, but only one from each shaft; 

 the wings not perceivable, except on close examination, being only 

 a small stump, with a claw or spur at the end, furnished with a few 

 straggling feathers, and quite hid in the plumage ; some of the 

 feathers of which are weak, and four inches or more long, and the 

 edges of them incline to dusky, giving a mottled, or mixed appearance: 

 there is no appearance of a tail ; the legs are short and stout, the 

 colour of the bill, but rather darker ; the feet have three toes before 



* On examining this bird with Dr. Shaw on his first receiving it, no appearance of nos- 

 trils was to be detected, but a furrow ran the whole length, at the end of which were two 

 minute holes, into which a bristle being introduced, passed up quite to the base, and no 

 doubt were the nostrils. 



