T A B . XL.
P I N G U I N A R I A ANTARCTICA.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS.
Pingiiinaria nigra, fubtus albida, ilriga utrinque fubtus oculos nigra, peciibus flavis.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Black Penguin, whitilh beneath, with a black ftripe under each eye, and yellow feet.
FOR the Generic Charafters of the Penguins refer to the Patagonian Penguin at T ab. XXIII.
where they are defcribed. The fpecies reprefented on the annexed Plate is found in vaft multitudes
in the feas and coafts of the antarftic regions. In its habits or general ways of life this
fpecies agrees with the reft of its genus. It is about the fame fi2e with the Magellanic Penguin,
figured at T ab. X X X I V . but the tail in this fpecies is of a fomewhat longer and ibarper
form than in that bird. Its principal diftinclive mark as a fpecies is the narrow black line which
runs under the eyes on each fide the head, meeting before, under the lower mandible. The
legs and feet are generally of a dull fleih-colour, and fometimes yellowifli-brown. The Penguins
may be confidered as holding the fame place among birds which Seals do amongft quadrupeds.
They are fo thickly coated with feathers, and abound fo much in animal oil, that the
water does not in the leaft penetrate or derange their plumage. They make prodigious cxcurfions
on the ocean, and are met with at the diftance of fome hundred leagues from land. Thev
reft occafionally on the vaft floating maflb of ice with which the high fouthern latitudes
abound. The eggs of this tribe arc large in proportion to the birds.
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