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CHILOE PENGUIN? 



it grows narrower and paler, and at last blends itself 

 with the white on the breast ; this appearance, how- 

 ever, is only when the neck is stretched, for the state 

 in which the bird usually carries itself is with the 

 head rather crouched in between the shoulders, where 

 the yellow appears encircling the neck as a necklace : 

 the wings are of the usual form, but larger in pro- 

 portion : the legs scaly and black." 



Natives of the Falkland Islands, New Guinea, New 

 Georgia, and other parts adjoining the Antarctic seas. 

 Their principal food consists of crabs, testacea, and 

 mollusca : they frequent sequestered places, and occur 

 in large flocks : their flesh, although black, is eatable. 



CHILOE PENGUIN ? 



( Aptenodytes ? Chiloensis.) 



Ap ? corpore lanuginosa cinereo tecto. 



Penguin ? with the body clothed with an ash-coloured down. 

 Aptenodytes Chiloensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat, L 559. Lath, Ind. 



Orn. ii. 881. 

 Diomedea Chilensis. Molin. CMl.p, 210. 



Chiloe Penguin. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 361. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 

 388. 



Size of a Duck : the body covered with a kind of 

 ash-coloured down, of so fine a texture as to admit 

 of being spun into thread, and made into garments, 

 coverings of heads, and other purposes. Inhabits the 

 Archipelago of Chiloe. May not this be a young 

 bird ? 



