NORTHERN PENGUIN^ 
;hapeless birds, wliich are strangers to the re- 
rions of air, and almost eqirally exiled from 
^hose of the land. Thus, between each of 
he great families, between the Quadrupeds, 
he Birds, and the Fishes, Nature has placed 
;onne6Ling links, that bind together the whole. 
She has sent forth the Bat, to flutter among 
:he Birds, while she has imprisoned the Arma- 
iillo in a crustaceous shell. She has moulded 
:he Whale-kind, after the Quadruped, whose 
•orm she has only truncated in the Walrus. 
The Seal, from the land, the place of his birtlij 
i)lunges into the flood ; and joins the cetaceous 
lerd, to demonstrate the universal consano;i_il~ 
lity of all the generations that spring from ihc 
)OSom of the common Mother. Finally, she 
las produced birds partaking of the instincls 
md economy of fishes. Such are the two fami^ 
lies of Penguins and Manchots ; w hich ought;, 
lowever, to be distinguished, as they aflualiy 
ire in Nature, not only by conformation, but 
>y diff^erence of climate. The name of Pen- 
guin, having been given indiscriminately to ail 
;he species of these two families, has intro- 
luced confusion. We may see, in Ray's Sy- 
lopsis, what dilBculties ornithologists have met 
witli. 
