PAPUAN GORFOU. 



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In common with the rest of the group to which it 

 belongs, this species is very stupid, and when struck 

 at does not offer to move from its situation. When 

 alarmed, or in anger, it erects its crest. The females 

 lay their eggs on the bare ground, in a hole formed 

 in the earth, by themselves j they are larger than 

 those of a Duck, and nearly white. 



This species is very common in the Falkland Islands, 

 and other parts of the southern regions, and frequently 

 jumps three or four feet out of the water upon meeting 

 with the slightest obstacle ; whence they have ob- 

 tained the name of Hopping Penguin, and Jumping 

 Jack, from our sailors. 



PAPUAN GORFOU. 



(Chrysocoma papua.) 



Ch. rostro pedibusque ruhicundis, macula occipitali alba. 

 Gorfou with reddish beak and legs, and a white occipital spot. 

 Aptenodytes papua. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. 556. 

 Le Manchot papoa. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 181.^^. 115. 

 Papuan Penguin. LatJu Gen. Syn. 6. 565. Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 X. 388. 



Length thirty inches : beak red, four inches long ; 

 the upper mandible slightly bent at the tip ; the under 

 a little pointed : the irides reddish-yellow : the head 

 and upper half and back of the neck bluish-dusky- 

 black : over the eye, on each side of the head, is a 

 large patch of white, which reaches backwards nearly 



