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Order sixteen, IMPENNES, consists of a single 
family of three genera, inhabiting the Southern 
Ocean, and known as Penguins. They are incapable 
of flight, fearless of man, and gregarious in their breed- 
ing haunts, all circumstances favouring the extinction 
of the race, which the brutal treatment they almost 
invariably meet with from those who visit their “‘ rook- 
eries” must soon accomplish. The King Penguin 
(Aptenodytes longirostris), in the separate case was 
brought alive to this country, and was the second living 
individual that reached England; it was captured in 
the Falkland Islands. A second species, Audyptila 
minor, from Goose Island, Australia, and a crested 
Penguin (Ludypies nigriventris), will also be noticed. 
Cases XXIII and XXIV.,, 
which conclude the series devoted to the general collec- 
tion of birds, contain some very interesting species. 
Order’ seventeen, CRYPTURI, comprises a single 
family, Tinamip4, consisting of a number of birds of 
a very aberrant form, inhabiting the South American 
region, and in appearance not very unlike partridges, 
from these, however, their anatomical peculiarities 
show them to be far removed, their relationship being 
at least as near to the Struthious birds. ‘Two species 
will be seen, one of the genus 7/zzamus, the other a 
Nothura. 3 
We now come to the second sub-class, RATIT AL, 
which contains one order only, the eighteenth and last, 
STRUTHIONES, flightless birds, generally very swift 
of foot. The first family is that of the Apreryx, 
another example of the marvellous fauna of the Aus- 
tralian region. These singular birds are found only 
in New Zealand ; two species are said to inhabit the 
Worth Island and two the South; they are nocturnal 
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