ethereal e l e v a t i o n of the Tropic-bird ; yet, ftnmge to tell! Li.moeiis, even in the twelfth edition
of the Syftcma Naturoe, has arranged the only fpeeies of Pen.çiiins which were then known
with the Tropic-bird and the Albatrofe ; the one under the genus Diomedea, the other under
that of Phaeton. We muft not however prefume to cenfure Limoeus too feverely. He adhered
with rigid exaanefs to the method he had prefcribed to himfelf of making the ftruaure
of the beak the leading charafter in the genera of birds; and it muft be candidly confeffed that
if we decide from this circumftance alone, the genera of Phaeton and Diomedea might be jiermitted
to remain without alteration : but when we take into conf.deration the prodigious difference
in every other refpea, we are compelled to feparate them, and arrange them, according
to their more natural affinities, in a genus by themfelves. Of all the Penguins the fpecies here
reprefented is the largeft. It is principally found aboiu the Magellanic coafts, as alfo thofe of
New Guinea, &c. 'in fize it is nearly equal to a fwan. Its general colour is a deep blaekllh
afli-colour, with a flight tinge of bluifll, owing to a fpot of that colour on the tip of each feather.
On each fide the neck is a longitudinal ftripe of bright yellow, which (from the manner
in which the bird commonly holds its head) appears rather in a tranfverfe direaion. The whole
under part of the bird is white. The legs and feet are black.
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