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CAPE SPHENISQUE. 



(Spheniscus demersus.) 



Sp. rostro pedihusque nigris, superciliis albiSf fascia pectorali 

 nigra, 



Sphenisque with the beak and legs black, the eyebrows white, 



and a black pectoral band. 

 Diomedea demersa. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 214. 

 Aptenodytes demersa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 557. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 879. 

 Spheniscus. Briss. Orn. 6. 97. 

 Black-footed Penguin. Edvo. Glean, pi. 94. 

 Cape Penguin. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 566. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



p. 381. 



Variety. — Spheniscus naevius. Briss. Orn. 6. 99. pi. 9. 

 Manchot a bee tronque. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9.411. Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 380. 



Black-footed Penguin. Edw. Glean, pi. 94. f 1. Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 6. 567. A. 



Length twenty-one inches : beak dusky, marked 

 with a transverse yellowish band near the tip ; from 

 the base, about half way, is a groove in which the 

 nostrils are placed : the upper parts of the plumage 

 are black : the sides of the head and throat dingy 

 grey : the wings are black above, with the lower edge 

 white, and the under part varied with black and white : 

 the breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts white : 

 tail wedge-shaped : legs, webs, and toes black. 



A variety or sexual distinction is described by 

 Brisson, with the upper part of the head, the back, 

 and rump blackish : each feather with a deep black 

 dash down the shaft, and some very small whitish-grey 



