3*° A L B A T R O S S .
P l a c e .
ing to black or/»»/-colour: for a fmall fpace above, behind, and
beneath the eye, the feathers are white, but not on the fore part
of it: quills and tail dark brown, nearly black; the lhafts of
both white; the laft pointed in ill ape : legs pale brownilh lead-
colour : claws black.
This fpecies was firft met with in lat 47. fouth*, but was
afterwards obferved throughout the Southern Ocean within the
antarHie circle. It was called by our failors the Quaker, from its
brown plumage.
* Firft met with about the time of firft falling in with the ict.— Cook's
Voj. i. p. 38.
G e nu s
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G e n u s LXXXIV . A U K .
N ' 1. Great A. N° 7. Crefted A.
a. Tufted A. 8. Dulky A.
3. Puffin A. 9. Perroquet A.
V a r . A . 10. Ancient A.
4. Labrador A. 11. Little A .
5. Razor-bill A.
6. Black-billed A.
12. Flat-billed A.
BI L L ftrong, thick, convex, comprefled on the lides *.
Noftrils linear, placed parallel to the edge of the bill.
Tongue almoft as long as the bill.
Toes three in number, all placed forwards.
Alca impennis, Lin• Syji. i. p. 2io. 3■ — Faux. Suec> N° 140.— jSra». N° ioy,
— Muller, p. 17.— Faun. Groenl. N° 52.
Le grand Pingoin, Brtf. Orn. vi. p. 85. 1. pi. i .— Buf. Oif. ix. p. 393.
pi. 29.— PI. Enl. 367.
Penguin, or Goifugel, Rail Syn. p. 118. 1.—Will. Orn. p. 322. pi. 65.—
Ednu. pi. 147.
Great Auk, Br. Zool. ii. N° 229. pi. 81.— Ar8. Zool. N° 424.
Lev» Mu/.
Q I Z E of a Gooje: length three feet. Bill four inches and a
quarter, covered great part of the way with downy Ihort feathers,
the colour of it black, and eroded with feveral furrows :
the colour of the plumage of the head, neck, and upper part of
* The laft fpecies excepted, which is depreffed ; yet, anfwering in other particulars,
may Hill be admitted at the heels of this genus.
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