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dots on each web : on each side of the head is a stripe 

 of white, which commences at the base of the beak 

 and passes over the eyes to the occiput, and uniting 

 to the white on the sides of the neck: the sides of 

 the head and throat are blackish-brown, marked with 

 small dirty white spots : on the breast is an arched 

 blackish-brown band, which passes in a line on each 

 side quite to the thighs. 



Found in the vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope : 

 the female lays two w4iite eggs, the size of those of a 

 Duck; they are reckoned delicious eating, and are 

 much prized : these birds are said to climb some way 

 up the rocks in order to make their nest, notwith- 

 standing the awkwardness of their manners : they 

 swim and dive admirably. 



MAGELLANIC SPHENISQUE. 



(Spheniscus Magellanicus.) 



Sp. rostro nigro fascia purpur ascent e, super ciliis alhis^ fascia pec- 

 torali et torque medio colli nigris, 



Sphenisque with the beak black, banded with purple, the eye- 

 brows white, a pectoral fascia and collar on the middle of the 

 neck black. 



Aptenodytes Magellanica. Gmel. Sysi. Nat. 1. 557. Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 880. 



Magellanic Penguin. Lath, Gen. Syn. 6. 569. Lath. Gen, Hist. 

 X. 383. 



Length from two feet to thirty inches : the beak 

 black, transversely banded near the tip : the irides 

 V. xin. p. I* 5 



