of the Awk in the oppofite latitudes; and neither of the genera
has yet been obferved within the tropics *. The Awk has true
wings and quills, though fmall; the Pinguin mere fins only, in-
ftead of wings. This laft has four toes on each foot; but the
former only three. The Pinguin, while fwimming, finks quite
above the breaft, the head and neck only appearing out of the
water, rowing itfelf along with its finny wings, as with oarsj
while the Awk, in common with moft other birds, fwims on the
furface. Several other circumftances peculiar to each might
be mentioned; but we truft that the above will prove fully fuf-
ficient to charafterife this genus.
The bodies of the Pinguin tribe are commonly fo well and
clofely covered with feathers that no wet can penetrate s and as
they are in general excefiively fat, thefe circumftances united fe-
cure them from cold. They have often been found above feven
hundred leagues from land; and frequently on the mountains
o f ice, on which they feem to afcend without difficulty, as the
foies of their feet are very rough and fuited to the purpofe f .
* Saw one for the firft time in lat. 48. S.— Forjl. Voy. i. p. 92.— Not met with
nearer than 40 deg. S.— Id.—Introd. Di/i. on Pingnins, Committal. Gott. vol. iii.
i* /if.—lb.
Aptenodytes chryfocome, Commentât, Gott, iii. p. 135. pi. 1.
Le Manchot fauteur, Bnf. Oif. ix. p. 409.
____ — huppé de Sibérie, PI, Enl, 984.
Hopping Penguin, Boug, Voy. p. 64, 65.— Phil, Tranf, Ixvi. p. I.
Br. Mnf.
H I S beautiful fpecies meafures twenty-three inches in
length. The bill is three inches long; the colour of it red,
with a dark furrow running along on each fide to the tip ; the
upper mandible is curved at the end, the under obtufe : irides
of a dull red: the head, neck, back, and fides, are black : over
each eye a ftripe of pale yellow feathers, which lengthens into
a creft behind, of near four inches in length; the feathers on
each fide of the head, above this ftripe, are longer than the
reft, and ftand upward, while thofe of the creft are decumbent,
but can be erefted on each fide at will * : the wings, or rather
fins, are black on the outfide, edged with white j on the infide
white: the breaft, and all the under parts, white: the legs are
orange: claws dufky.
The female has a ftreak of pale yellow over the eye, but it is
not prolonged into a creft behind as in the male.
Inhabits Falkland’s IJlands, and was likewife met with in Kerguelen’s
Land, or IJle of Deflation, as well as at Van Diemen’s Land, and
New Holland, particularly in Adventure Bay. Are called Hopping
Pinguins, and Jumping Jacks, from their action of leaping quite out
of the water, on meeting with the leaft obftacle, for three or four
feet at leaft j and indeed, without any feeming caufe, do the fame
i.
+- CRESTED P.
Description»
F emale.
Place and
Manners*
Ctck's laß Voy. i. p. 88.
4 C