NORTHERN PENGUIN. 
foundland, nearly a hundred leagues from shore. 
I havefigured this bird," he concludes, "prin- 
cipally to shew, that the above described bird is 
a distin6l species, if not of a different genus, 
from those called Penguins, about the Straits 
of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. 
?Tke above described is a bird common to the 
northern parts both of Europe and America ; 
it beino" found on the Islands of Ferro, belong- 
ing to Norway. See what Mr. Willughby 
has said and collected of Pencruins in his Or- 
nithology. All the Penguins have escaped 
Mr. Albin's notice." 
! This species of tlie Penguin seems not to be 
numerous : at least, according to Linnaeus, 
they seldom appear on the coasts of Norway ; 
and, Hoierus says, they do not resort to the 
Ferro Islands every year. 
The Akpa of the Greenlanders, " a bird as 
large as a Duck, with the back black, and the 
telly white, and which can neither run nor 
fly," mentioned in the Histoire Generale des 
Voyages, BufFon takes to be his Great Pen- 
guin. With respe6l to the pretended Pen- 
guins 
