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^he Black-Footed Penguins. 
T hese Birds appeared to me about the Size of tame Geefe ; I have called them Black‘d 
Footed^ to diftinguilii them from one defcribed in this Book with red Feet, and a red Bill, 
of a different Form from the Bills of thefe, which I have called Timply the Penguin, See its 'Fi- 
gure and Defcription, pag. 49. In this Plate I have added the Bill of that figur’d Plate 49, to- 
gether with a Bill of thefe, both of their natural Size, they being a good deal different, which 
I think fully proves them to be of two diftind Species ; the Legs are placed very backward. 
The Bill of the fronting Figure is Black, hooked at the Point of the upper Chop, and Icem- 
ing to be cut. off at the Point of the lower, into which Cleft the over-hanging Part of the upper 
falls *, it is fomething comprefied fideways and furrow’d *, the Noftrils are placed at equal Dif- 
tances betv/een the Bafis and Point •, toward the Point it is croffed with a yellowifh Stripe or Bar : 
T he Throat, and Sides of the Head, are of a dirty Brown-colour, in which the Eyes are placed; 
from the Balls of the Bill above the Eyes, on each Side of the Head, paffes a broad white Line, 
which joins itfelf to the White on the Sides and under Side of the Neck : The Top of the 
Head, upper Side of the Neck, Back, and upper Part of the Wings, are of a dark Brown-co- 
lour ; the under Side, Neck, Breaft, and Belly, are White, excepting a Line of Brown that 
paffes over the Bread:, .and reaches on each Side as far as the Legs, as expreffed in the Figure ; 
It is White on the Rump \ the Infides of the Wings are Brown, variegated with fome White 
and Black ; all the Brown Parts are a little fpotted with Dusky or Black \ it hath little Signs of a 
Tail, there appearing only a few ffiort Briftles ; the Feathers on the upper Part are hard and 
very clofe ; the Legs and Feet are of a Black-colour i the Toes arm’d with ftrong Claws, three 
of which are webb’d together, and the fourth is very fmall and loofe, which ftands forward ra- 
ther than backward ; the inner of the three greater Toes hath a lateral Web ; the Feet are thick 
and clumfy. I have not obferved the Pofition of the fmall Toe in any other Fowl anfwer 
40 this.. Another of thefe Birds that came with this was blacker in its dark Parts, but otKerwife 
the fame. 
The other Figure {landing fideways had the Bill and Feet Ihaped and coloured as the above ; 
the Head, Neck, Back, and Wings, dusky, yet fomething light on the Throat and above the 
Eyes ; the Breaff: and Belly wholly White, wanting the Wreath or Stripe which furrounds the un- 
der Side of the former ; This had a fmall Verge of White on the Points of the Place of Quills in 
Other Fowls ; the Wings in both were flat, hard, and very little in Proportion, covered with 
Feathers fo very fmall and ffiff, that they appeared to be Shagreen : I drew one of the largeff; 
Quills, which fee figur’d as big as Nature on the Side of the Plate ; I counted more than a hun- 
dred of thefe in the ffrff: Row. . 
The fu it.of thefe Birds was lent me by Mr. Cgwell^ and the other by Mr. Holms ; they could 
not fay diredlly.frorn whence they were brought, but, as they came by Eaft-India Ships, I fup- 
pofe they are from tX^eQdi^e oi Good Hops ^ it may be that figur’d 49 is the Mega^ 
lenic Goofe, Thefe Southern Birds differ widely from the Northern Penguin defcribed by Wil- 
loughby, Pag. 3 22, that having a more perfedt Wihg •, the Quill of one of them I have pluck’d 
out meafured three Inches and a half ; it hath a more, perfedl Tail, and wants the fourth Toe. 
See a farther Account of the Northern Penguin in the Hiftory of the Hands Foe-roe, Pag, 14 1. 
engiifhed from the Language, in which it is called Gar[ugel\ the Author fuppofes it to 
be like the Penguin found in Ferra del Fugo, painted and defcribed in Atlas minor mercatoris. 
The Coralline Subftance here figured as a Decoration, in the Form of Bells, is after Nature, of 
its natural Size ; it is of a White-colour ; but what Part of the World produced it I cannot tell, 
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