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white Head, and coal-black boHy. Now feeing Penguin in the Welfi Tongue figni- 

 fiesa white head, I rather think the Bird wasfb called from its white head 5 though I 

 confefs that our Penguin hath not a white Head, but only fome white about the 

 Eyes. ] This ( faith Clufitts J is a Sea-fowl of the Goofe-kmd, though unlike in its Bill. 

 It lives in the Sea; is very fat, and of the bignefs of a large Goofe, for the old ones 

 in this kind are found to weigh thirteen, fourteen, yea, fometimes fixteen pounds 3 

 the younger eight, ten, and twelve. The upper fide of the body is covered with 

 black feathers, the under fide with white. The Neck (which in fome is (hort and 

 thick) hath as it were a ring or collar of white feathers. Their skin is thick liked 

 Swims. They want Wings, but inftead thereof they have two Imall skinny fins* 

 hanging down by their fides like two little arms, covered on the upper fide with 

 fhort, narrow, ftiff feathers, thick-let 5 on the under fide with lelTer and differ, and 

 thofe' white, wherewith in fome, places there are black ones intermixt 5 altogether 

 unfit for flight, but fuch as by their help the birds fwim fwiftfy. I underftood that 

 they abide for the moft part in the water, and go to land only in breeding time, and 

 for the moft part lie three or four in one hole. They have a Bill bigger than a Ra- 

 vens, but not fo* high; and a.very (hort Tail 5 black, flat Feet, of the form ofGeefe-* Elated* 

 feet,' but not fo broa^. They walk erecf, with their heads on high, their fin-like 

 Wings hanging down by their fides like arms, fo that to them who fee them afar off 

 they appear like fo many diminutive men or Pigmies. I find in the Diaries [ d> r Jour- 

 nals of that Voyage ] that they feed only upon fifh, yet is not their flefh of any un- 

 grateful relifh, nor doth it tafte of fifh. They dig deep holes in the fhore like Cony- 

 burroughs,making all the ground fometimes fo hollow, that the Seamen walking over 

 it would often fink up to the knees in thofe vaults. Thefe perchance are thofe Qeefe, 

 which Gomora faith are without feathers, never come out of the Sea, and inftead of 

 feathers are covered with long hair. Thus far Clufius, whofe defcription agrees well 

 enough to our Penguin \ but his figure is falfe in that it isdrawn with four toes in each 



- OlamWormius * treating of this bird, to Clu(tm his defcription adds of his own * a ^ Iib> * 

 obfervation as followeth. This Bird was brought me from the F err oyer Iflands 3 I 

 kept i; alive for fome months attny houfe. It was a young one, for it had not arrived 

 to that bignefs as to exceed a common Goofe. It would fwallow an entire Herring at 

 once, and fometimes three fucceffively before it was fatisfied. The feathers on its 

 back were fo foft and even that they refembled black Velvet. Its Belly was of a pure 

 white. Above the Eyes it had a round white fpot, of the bignefs of a Dollar, that 

 you would have fworn it were a pair of Spectacles, ( which Ciufw obferved not ) nei- 

 ther were its Wings of that figure he expreffes 5 but a little broader, with a border of 

 white. 



Whether it hath or wants the back-toe neither Glujius nor Wormius in their de- 

 fections make any mention. In Wormim his figure there are no back-toes drawn. 



This Bird exceeding the reft of this kind in bignefs juftly challenges the firft place 

 among them. 



Chap. II. 



The Bird called the Razor-bill in the Weft of England, the Auk in, the North, 

 the Murre in Cornwal : Alka Hoieri in Epift. ad Clufium. Worm.muf. 



^Hisis lefs by half than the Penguin, being not fo big as a tame Duck: Between 

 the tips of the Wings fpread it was twenty feven inches broad. Its Head;, 

 Neck, Back, and Tail, in general its whole upper fide is black. Its Belly 

 and Breft as far as the middle of the Throat white. The upper part ^ the Throat 

 under the Chin hath fomething of a dusky or purplifh black. Each Wing hath^ ■ 

 twenty eight quil-feathers 5 the tips of all * to the eleventh are white. *The Tail is *J^ e £" 

 three inches long, confifting of twelve feathers, the exteriour fhorter by degrees than 

 the interiour ; The excefs of the two middlemen: above the next them is greater than 

 that of therefti 



The Bill from the tip to the angles of the mouth is two inches long, of a deep black, 

 narrow or compreffed fideways. A litB^eyond the Nofthrils in the upper Mandible 

 there is engraven a furrow or incifion deeper than that in the Coulter-neb. As far as 



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