NORTHERN PENGUIN. 
which discriminate them, that Nature, in pro- 
ducing them, seems to have evidently banished, 
to the extremities of the globe, these extremes 
of the feathered kind; in the same manner as 
she has banished to those retreats the great 
amphibious animals, the extremes of the qua- 
drupeds, the Seals and the Walrusses: unfi- 
nisihed, mutilated forms ; incapable of figuring, 
in fhe animated scene, among the more perfe6t 
"models, and exiled into the remote confines of 
the world." 
{ Of the Penguins, BufFon enumerates and 
describes three species : the Penguin ; the Great 
Penguin ; and the Little Penguin. 
, Our Northern Penguin of Edwards, the 
Great Penguin of BufFon, is thus described 
by the former — 
" This bird is about the bigness of a tame 
Goose. The bill is compressed sideways, and 
of a dusky or black colour, which has a knob 
or angle, on the under side, and is furrowed or 
grooved obliquely on the sides of both the upper 
and lower mandibles. The head, and neck, 
about 
