NORTHERN PENGUIN. 
in general, is the limit which the Manchots 
have seldom passed, and that the bulk of them 
afFe6l the high and cold latitudes of the South 
Sea. The true Penguins, also, which arc 
those of the North, seem to prefer the Icy Sea ; 
though they sometimes descend as far as the 
Isle of Wight, for the purpose of breeding. 
However, the Ferro Islands, and the coasts of 
Norway, seem to be their native territory on 
the Ancient Continent; andGreenland, Labra- 
dore, and Newfoundland, that in the New. 
Like the Manchots, they are entirely destitute 
of the power of flying : having only small 
ends of wings ; covered, indeed, with feathers, 
but these so short as to be fit only for flutter- 
ing. The Penguins, like the Manchots, re- 
main almost constantly on the sea ; and seldom 
come to land, except to nestle or to rest. 
They lie squat: it being equally painful for 
them to walk, or to stand ere6l; though their 
legs are rather taller, and placed not quite so 
much behind the body as in the Manchots. 
In short, the analogy in their instinft, their 
mode of life, and in their mutilated, truncated 
shape, is such, between these tvvo families, not- 
withstanding the cliaradleiistic dlflerences 
which 
