Place and
Manners.
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CAPE P.
D escription«
'low ! the upper parts of the body are black, the under glofiy
white ; beneath the chin a narrow blackilh ftreak, paffing backwards
towards the hind head, fomewhat bent about the region of
the ears: wings as in the others; above blue-black; the lower
margin and infide white ; tips black: tail cuneiform, the feathers,
or rather briftles, which compofe it, black, and thirty-two in number
: legs fiefh-coloured : foies of the feet black.
This fpecies inhabits the South Sea, from 48 degrees to the ant-
arEiic circle-, and is frequently found on the ice mountains and
ijlands, on which it afcends: it is a pretty numerous fpecies *.
Our laft voyagers found them in plenty in the ifle of Defolation.
And it was obferved, that in an itland they touched at, not greatly
diftant, the rocks were almoft covered with Pinguins and
Shags-, the firft moft probably of this fort f .
Diomedea demerfa, Lin. Sy/. i. p. 214. 2.
Le Manchot, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 97.—P/. Enl. 382.
Aptenodytes demerfa, Commentate Gott. iii. p. 144.
Magellanic Goofe of Clufius, Will. Orn. p. 322 l
Pinguin, Kolb. Cap. ii. p. 144.
Lelfer Penguin, Phil. Tran/, lviii. p. 97.
Black-footed Penguin, Ed<w. pi. 94.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of a large Duck: length twenty-one inches. Bill blackilh,
eroded with a tranfverfe yellowilh band near the tip; the
upper mandible is hooked 5 from the bafe about half way is a
furrow, in which the noftrils are placed -, the under mandible is
truncated at the end : the upper parts of the bird, from the head
• for ft. Voy. i, p. 98. 4 Ellis, Voy. i. p. 6.
to tail, are black : fides of the head and throat dirty grey : bread:,
belly, thighs, and under the tail, white : the finny wings are
black above, white on the lower edge, and white yaried with
black beneath : tail Ihort and cuneiform : legs furnifhed with
four toes ; the inner placed high up, and on the infide of the
foot : the colour of the legs, membranes, and toes, black *.
Le Manchot tacheté, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 99. t. 9,. r.
Le Manchot à bec tronqué, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 411. pi. 31.— PI. Enl. 1005. *1- V ar. A.
Black-footed Penguin, Ea-iv. pi. 94.
g I Z E of the laft. Bill the fame: the upper part of the head, D escription.
neck, back, and rump, blackilh, each feather dalhed with
deep black down the lhaft, and marked With very fmall whitilh
grey dots on each fide : on each fide of the head a ftripe of white,
beginning at the bafe of the bill, paffing over the eyes to the
hind head, and joining with the white on the fides of the neck :
the fides of the head and throat are blackilh brown, marked, like
the back, with fmall dirty white fpecks, but lefs confpicuous :
on the breaft is an arched blackilh brown band, which palTes in a
line on each fide quite to the thighs : the wings, tail, and legs,
as in the laft-deferibed j\
* Kolben fays, of a pale green.-—In a drawing of the late Mr. Edwards, now
in my poffellion, I obferve the legs to be red : we may conclude therefore that
t^e legs vary much in colour.
4 The above is BriJJbn1 s defeription : that in Edwards differs in having the
black more inclined to brown, and wanting the whitilh fpots ; which alfo is the
cafe in a fpecimen in my own collection.
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