téS P I N G U I N .
V ar. B.
D escription,
Place anb
Manners,
J N the Leverian Mufeum I alfo obferve a further variety. Ia
this the crown of the head, hind part of the neck, and all the
upper parts of the body, are black : the under moftly white, except
the chin, which is black, and furrounds the eye fomewhat in
the fame manner as in the laft-mentioned; but at fuch a diftance,
and in fo circular a manner, as greatly to give the appearance of
the bird’s having a pair of fpedtacles * on, efpecially if.feen in
front: it has the fame band over the bread:, and palling down
on each fide to the thighs, as the laft-defcribed.
The two firft-mentioned are fuppofed to be male and female 5
and perhaps fuch as vary from thofe defcriptions may prove the
young birds of one or the other fex ?
The above are all found in the neighbourhood of the Cafe of
Good Hope-, but particularly in Robben or Penguin Ifle, near Sal-
danie Bay f . Like all of the genus, this is an excellent fwimmer
and diver; but hops and flutters in a ftrange awkward manner
on the land, and, if hurried, Humbles perpetuallyj and frequently
runs for fome diftance like a quadruped, making ufe of the wings
* Compare Pinguin a lunettes, Pernet. Voy. ii. p. 17. t. 7. fig. 3.— Id. Bngl.
Trattjl. p. 243. t. 15. •
4 jn abundance in Cenye Ifle, fourteen leagues ihort of Saldanie Bay, feeding
on fjh at fea, and graft athore; and have holes to live in like Conies, “ Some
adventure to eat them, but to make a meal I cannot advife, other than as the
iifiUh directs.
Tota quidem ponatur Anas, fed peclore tantum
Et cervice fapit, csetera redde coquo.
Divide the Duck, only the neck and breafi
They favour well, the Cook may take the reft.”
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inftead of legs, till it can recover its upright pollute; crying out
at the fame time like a Goofe, but in a much hoarfer voice. Said
to clamber fome way up the rocks in order to make the neft ; in
doing which has been obferved to allift with the bill. The eggs
are two in number, white, as large as thofe of a Duck, and
reckoned delicious eating, at leaft are thought fo at the Cape,
where they are brought in great numbers for that purpofe. At
this place -the-birds are often feen kept tame ; but in general they
do not furviye the confinement many months.
Aptenodytes Magellanica, Commentat. Gott, iii. p. 143. t. 5.-—Miller’s
Illujir. pi. 34.
g I Z E of the Antarctic Pinguin: length from two feet to two
feet fix inches : weight- eleven pounds. The bill black, with
a tranfverfe band acrofs it near the tip ; the under mandible obliquely
truncated : irides red brown : fides of the head, beneath
the eye, and chin, black : from the bafe of the bill, through and
over the eye, a white ftreak, which furrounds the black on the
fides of the head, and meets under the throat: except the above
markings, the reft of the head and neck are black ; of which colour
are the upper parts of the body and wings : the under parts
of the laft, and body, from the breaft, white, except a narrow
band of black, which paflfes at a little diftance within the white
on the breaft, and downwards on each fide, beneath the wings,
quite to the thighs: the legs are of a reddifh flelh-colour, fpotted
irregularly on the toes : claws black.
It feems to be greatly allied to the laft-defcribed, and to
differ in external appearance chiefly by having the middle of the
neck black all round.
Vo t. III. 4 D
6.
MAGELLANIC
P.
Description.
This