PENGUIN. 
guins described in the Voyage of Martiniere, 
they are,'* he concludes, *' evidently Pelicans.'^ 
The specific chara6ler of the Alca Impen- 
nivS, or our Northern Penguin, is this — It's 
bill is compressed, and channelled ; and it has 
an oval spot, on either side, before the eyes. 
The length of this bird, on both surfaces, to 
the end of the toes, is three feet: the tip of 
the longest wing-quills is only four inches and 
a quarter from the joint. It's egg is six inches 
long; and of a white colour, irregularly 
marked with ferruginous. It is said frequently 
to visit St. Kilda, where it breeds in June and 
It is remarkable, that Buffon says, in de- 
scribing this bird, " the bill, which, according 
to Edwards's comparison, resembles the end of 
a broad cutlass, has it's sides flat, and hollowed 
with notches:" whereas, in truth, Edwards 
makes no such comparison, nor anv thing 
at all like it ; at least, in either of his three dif- 
ferent descriptions of Penguins. 
If the Akpa, of Greenland, as suggested 
by 
