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TAB. XXXIV.
PINGUINARIA MAGELLANICA.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS.
Plngxiinaria roftro nigro, fuperclliis albis, fafcia peftorali et torque medio colli nlgris.
Aptenodytes Magellanica. LATH. IND. ORN. p. 880.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, &c.
Pinguin with black bill, white flreak over the eyes, and black band acrofs the neck and breaft.
Magellanic Pinguin. LATH. SYNOPS. vol. 3. p. 569.
THE Generic Charaélers of this affortment of birds being prefixed to the defcription of the Patagonian
Pinguin at T ab. XXI I I . it is unnecefTary to repeat them here. We therefore proceed
to the defcription of the ipe cies here exhibited. Its general length is about two feet, or rather
more. Acrofs the mandibles, near the tip of the beak, runs a tranfverfe band of a paler colour
than the reft of the beak. The iridcs are of a bright reddiih brown: the general colour
o f the bird on the upper parts is black; the lower parts white. A very remarkable band, or
curved fafcia of black, is carried along the fides of the body, forming one continued ribband,
as it were, on the fore-parts of the bird, and terminating in a iharpened ftrokc juft above each
leg. The under furface of the wings is tinged flightly with yellowifli, and marked with a few
fcattered fpecks of black, efpecially towards the tip, where there is a patch of black. The legs
and feet are of an elegant pale purple, oi- carnation, fpotted with black: the claws large, iharp,
and black. From the upper mandible, on each fide, pafles a band of white, which runs towards
the hind-part of the head, and from thence round the cheeks on each fide, and acrofs
the neck; thus furrounding the cheeks with a continued band of white. This bird is extremely
nearly allied to the fpecies of Pinguin defcribed by Linnseus under the name of Diomedea demeifa;
of which it may perhaps be a variety, differing in fome particulars, efpecially in the
colour of the feet, and fome other circumftanccs. It is a native of the Magellanic coafts,
where it is extremely plendfiil. Thefe birds are faid to fwim with fuch celerity as to outftrip
the fwifteft fiihes, and while in the a£i: of fwimming, no other part of the bird appears above
the furface of the water except the head and neck.