PENGUIN. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill straight, smooth, compressed. 
Wings like fins; no wing feathers. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Aptenodyta Patachonica. Apt. rostro pedibusque nigris, ma- 
cula ad aures aurea. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 556. 
Beak and feet black, a gold-coloured 
spot close to the ears. 
Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinee. 
Sonn. It. p. 179 . t. 113. 
Patagonian Penguin. . Buff. Birds, v. 9 . p.338. pi. 26l. 
Phil. Trans, v. 58. p. 91 . t. 5. 
Lath. Syn. v. 3. p. 563. no. 2 . 
These very singular birds only inhabit the tem- 
perate and frigid zones of the southern hemisphere, 
where they are found in abundance, stalking about 
perfectly upright with their little fin-like wings 
hanging close to their sides. Their blueish black 
backs, contrasted with their white bellies, made 
Sir John Narborough say that they would be taken 
