The Northern Penguin. 
T HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of a Tame Goofe. The Head and Bill are re- 
prefented of their natural Bignefs, by which one may the better judge of the 
Size of the Bird. 
The Bill is compretted Sideways, and of a dufky or black Colour: It hath a Knob 
or Angle on the under Side, and is furrowed or grooved obliquely on the Sides of 
both the upper and lower Mandibles, as the Figure expreffes. The Head and Neck, 
(about half-way before, and its whole Length behind,) as alfo the Back, Tail and 
upper Sides of the Wings, are of a deep Black; the Feathers are very foft and even, 
having a Glofs like Sattin. The Eyes are placed pretty near, above the Angles of the 
Mouth, which are deep. Between the Bill and the Eyes, on each Side of the Head, 
is a large oval white Spot: The Crown of the Head is very flat, the white Spots 
riling on the Sides rather higher than the Middle of the Crown of the Head. The 
Prime Quills are Black, the longed: not three Inches and a half long, (See its natural 
Size in the Figure.) The inner Quills, or thofe next the Body are tipped with White j 
The inner Covert-Feathers of the Wing are whitifh; the Bread:, Belly and Covert- 
Feathers under the Tail are White; the Feathers on the under Side are of the com¬ 
mon Structure, being more firm than thofe on the Upper. The Legs and Feet are 
cover’d with black Scales; it hath only three Toes, all Banding forward, and webbed 
together. It hath pretty ftrong black Claws. 
This Bird I procured of the Matter of a Newfoundland Fifhing-Veffel, who told me. 
It was taken with their Fifh-baits, on the Filhing-banks of Newfoundland^ near an hun¬ 
dred Leagues from Shore. This Bird hath already been figur’d and defcribed ; but 
the Figure has a Ring round the Neck in Willughby , which is not found in the natu¬ 
ral Bird and the Defcriptions are not clear; it is alfo confounded with the Southern 
Penguins , and Mr. Willughby feems to think them and the Northern the fame Birds ; 
but I, who have feen feveral both from the South and North, am fo far from being 
of his Opinion, that I fhould rather make them of two dittinCt Tribes of Birds. 
The Southern has four Toes on a Foot, tho’ Mr. Willughby fays Clufus’s Figure is 
falfe in having four Toes, whereas it is confirmed to me to be true. The Southern 
has alfo different Wings, and nothing on them to be called Feathers : See one of the 
Prime Quills figur’d in the Plate, together with a Quill of the Northern, both being 
of their natural Size. See the Penguins from the South, Plate 49 and 94 of this 
Work. I have figur’d this Bird principally to fhow, that the above. defcribed Bird 
L a dittindt Species, if not of a different Genus, from thofe called Penguins , about 
the Streights of Magellan , and the Cape of Good Hope. The above defcrib’d is a 
Bird common to the Northern Parts both of Europe and America , it being found 
in the Iflands of Ferro , belonging to Norway : See what Mr. Willughby has faid and 
collected of Penguins in his Ornithology, P.3223 323. All the Penguins have efcaped 
Mr. Albin s Notice. 
