564 P I N G U I N .
P lace a,nd
Mankers.
wings are formed much as in the others, but feem longer in
proportion : the legs fcaly and black.
Some of thefe are much paler in plumage, and the yellow lefs
vivid than in others, which are perhaps the females, if not the
young birds.
This fpecies was firft met with in Falkland tflands, and has
alfo been feen in Kerguelen's Land, New Georgia, and New
Guinea *, M. Bougainville caught one, which foon became fo
tame as to follow and know the perfon who had care of i t : it
fed on fteß, fife, and bread, but after a time grew lean, pined
away, and died. The chief food, when at large, is thought to
be fife; the remains of which, as well as crabs, feell-fife, and
mollufcte, were found in the ftomach. This fpecies is the fatteft
of the tribe 5 moft fo in January, when they moult. Suppofed to
lay and lit in Oilober. Are met with in the moft deferted places.
Their flelh is black, though not very unpalatable. This has
been confidered as a folitary fpecies f , but has now and then
been met with in confiderable flocks J. Are found in the
fame places as the Papuan Pinguins, and not unfrequently mixed
with them ; but in general Ihew a difpofition of afiociating with
their own fpecies.
* Sonnerat.—^ForJl. Voy• ii. 214. 528. f Bougainville*
$ Cook’s lajl Voy. i. p. 87.—Pinguins were feen by thoufands in New Teaks
JJlandt near Staaten L an dof which more than 500 were had by the fhip’s company
for food.
P I N G U I N . 5^5
Aptenodytes papua, Comment at. Gott. Hi. p. *43* 3«
Le Manchot papou, Son. Voy. p. 181. t. 115.
Lev. Mu/.
C I Z E fomewhat bigger than the Cape Pinguin: length two
^ feet and a half. Bill four inches long, colour red ; the upper
mandible fomewhat bent at the tip; the under moderately pointed
: irides yellow, or of a pale red: the head, and half the
neck, dulky black, inclining to blue; on each fide the head,
over the eye, a large patch of white, tending backwards to the
hind head, but not furrounding the eye below; acrofs the top of
the head is a narrow bar of white, uniting the patches on each
fide: the under parts from the neck are alfo white; and the
upper blueilh black : the wings are black above, and at the tips,
the lower edge and infide white; tail cuneiform, the middle feathers
feven inches in length : legs red; in fome yellow: webs
dulky : claws black.
This inhabits the IJle of Papos, or New Guinea ; and has alfo
been met with at Falkland IJles and Kerguelen's Land *. Found
frequently among the laft-defcribed.
■ PAPUAN P.
D escription.
Pla
Aptenodytes antarftica, Commtntat. Colt. iii. p. 141. t. 4. ANTARCTIC P
T ENGTH twenty-five inches: weight eleven pounds and a half. D escription.
Bill more than two inches and three quarters in length, and
black; the under mandible fomewhat truncated: irides pale yel-
Coo Vs laß Voy» i. p.