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The Black-Footed Penguins. 
T hese Birds appeared to me about the Size of tame Geefe •, I have called them Black- 
Footed^ to diftinguifh 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 fimply the Penguin. See its Fh 
gure and Defcription, fag. 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 
1 think fully proves them to be of two diftindt Species •, the Legs are placed very backward. 
The Bill of the fronting Figure is Black, hooked at the Point of the upper Chop, and feem- 
ing to be cut off at the Point of the lower, into which Cleft the over-hanging Part of the upper 
falls j it is fomething comprefled fideways and furrow’d ^ the Noftrils are placed at equal Dif- 
tances between the Bafis and Point ^ toward the Point it is croffed with a yellowifh Stripe or Bar: 
The Throat, and Sides of the Head, are of a dirty Brown-colour, in which the Eyes are placed; 
from the Bafis of the Bill above the Eyes, on each Side of the Head, pafles a broad white Line, 
which joins itfelf to the White on the Sides and under Side of the Neck: The Top of the 
Flead, 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 Breaft, and reaches on each Side as far as the Legs, as exprefled 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 fported with Dusky or Black j it hath little Signs of a 
Tail, there appearing only a few Ihort Briftles ; the Feathers on the upper Part are hard and 
very clofe •, the Legs and Feet are of a Black-colour •, the Toes arm’d with ftrong Claws, three 
of which are webb’d together, and the fourth is very fmall and loofe, which Hands 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 
to this. Another of thefe Birds that came with this was blacker in its dark Parts, but otherwife 
the fame. 
The other Figure Handing fideways had the Bill and Feet ffiaped and coloured as the above *, 
the FIcad, Neck, Back, and Wings, dusky, yet fomething light on the Throat and above the 
Eyes *, the Breaft 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 ftiff, that they appeared to be Shagreen : I drew one of the largcft 
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 firft Row. 
The firft of thefe Birds was lent me by Mr. Cowell., and the other by Mr. Holms ; they could 
not fay diredlly from whence they were brought, but, as they came by Eqfi-India Ships, I fup- 
pofe they are from the Cape of Good Hope, and it may be that figur’d Page 49 is the Mega- 
lenic Goofe. Thefe Southern Birds differ widely from the Northern Penguin delcribed by Wil¬ 
loughby, Pag. 322, that having a more perfed Wing •, the Quill of one of them I have pluck’d 
out meafured three Inches and a half; it hath a more perfed Tail, and wants the fourth Toe. 
See a farther Account of the Northern Penguin in the Hiftory of the Hands of Foe-roe, Pag. 141. 
engliflred from the Danijh Language, in which it is called Garfugel ; the Author fuppoies it to 
be like the Penguin found in Terra 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 j it is of a White-colour j but what Part of the World produced it I cannot tell. 
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