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separate, and one behind,* but the last is placed much within, and 

 so high up, as to be useless, with no apparent membrane between 

 the toes; claws strong, sharp, very little bent; the inner one almost 

 straight. 



Inhabits New Zealand, brought from the south coast by Captain 

 Barclay, of the ship Providence, who presented it to Dr. Shaw, as 

 an addition to his collection of natural history. The Doctor, it is 

 true, has made this bird the basis of a new Genus, and it certainly 

 differs in some things from the general tribe of Pinguins, yet it 

 coincides with them in so many, as to render this separation less 

 needful : and the reader cannot fail to observe, that not only in the 

 present instance, but in several others in the course of this work, 

 the great desire of the author to accommodate many new species to 

 some Genus already fixed ; so as to give the least violence possible 

 to the general system ; being of opinion, that creating a single new 

 Genus, when it can possibly be avoided, will serve only unnecessarily 

 to burthen the memory, as well as to distract the mind. 



* The form of the foot is not greatly unlike that of the Dodo, and in the above speci- 

 men the toes were not connected by an intervening membrane; yet from certain inequalities 

 on the sides, it is possible that there may have been one, and that it had been eaten away by 

 insects. 



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