, THE CHESTED PENGUIN. 26? 



Description Names Manners. 



head, neck, back, and sides, are black. Over 

 eacb eye there is a stripe of pale yellow feathers, 

 which lengthens behind into a crest about four 

 inches long; this is decumbent, but can be 

 erected at pleasure ; the feathers of the head 

 above this are longer than the rest, and stand up- 

 ward. The wings are black on the outside: but 

 the edges and the inside are white. The legs are 

 orange-coloured, and the claws dusky. The fe- 

 male is destitute of the crest. These birds have 

 also the names of hopping penguins, and jump- 

 ing jack, from their action of leaping quite out 

 of the water, sometimes three or four feet, on 

 meeting with any obstacle in their course; and, 

 indeed, they frequently do this without any other 

 apparent cause than the desire of advancing by 

 that means. They are inhabitants of several of 

 the South-Sea islands. 



This species seems to have a greater air of 

 liveliness in its countenance than almost any of 

 the others: yet it is a very stupid bird; and 

 so regardless of its own safety, as even to suffer 

 any person to lay hold of it. When provoked, 

 it erects its crest in a very beautiful manner; and 

 when attacked by our voyagers, we are told it 

 ran at them in flocks, pecked their legs, and 

 spoiled their clothes. Mr, Forster, in his ac- 

 count of one of the South-Sea islands, says, 

 " When the whole herd was beset, they all be- 

 came very bold at once; and ran violently at us, 

 biting our legs, or any part of our clothes." 

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