8.
RED-FOOTED
P.
D escription.
Place.
LITTLE P.
Pl. CIII.
Description.
Phaeton demerlus, Lin. Syft. i. p. zig.
- Aptenodytes catarra&es, Commentat. Gott. ill. p. 14$!
Le Gorfon, Erif. Orn. vi. p. 102.
Red-footed Penguin. Ea'iv. pl. 49.— Phil. Tran/, lviii. p. 98.
O I Z E of a Goofe. Bill two inches and a third in length, and
red ; both mandibles pointed, and the upper one very little
bent: fore part of the head dirty brown ; the back part of it,
and all the upper parts of the neck and body, a dirty purple:
all the under parts white * : wings brown, fringed with white t
tail fhort, briftly, and black : legs, toes, and membranes, of a
dirty red : claws brown.
Inhabits the South Seas.
Aptenodytes minor, Commentât. Gott. iii. p. 147.
Small Penguin, Cook's laß V<y. i. p. 151.
Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of a Teal : length fifteen inches. Bill an inch and a half
long, in fhape much like that of the red-footedj colour
dulky j the under mandible fomewhat truncated, and blue at the
baft : irides livid : the upper parts of the bird, from head to-
tail, appear cinereous blue, the ends of the feathers being of that
colour, but the bafè of them is brown black, the lhafts of each
feather black : round the eye, and a little way below on each
fide, is a bed of pale brownilh alh-colour : the under parts, from
chin to vent, white : wings' dulky above, and white beneath : tail
%
* Edviarsh's. bird was undulated on the under parts.
very
very (hort, and confifts of fixteen ftiff feathers, but is fcarce
perceivable, except in the feathers appearing a little elongated at
that part: legs dull red: webs dulky : claws black.
This fpecies is found among the rocks on the fouthern parts
of New Zealand, where it is not unfrequent j but in the greateft
plenty at Thijky Bay. They make deep burrows on the (ides of
the hills, in which they lay their eggs : thefe holes are fo thick in
fome parts, that a perfon is fcarce able to walk three or four fteps
without falling into one of them up to the knees. The inhabitants
o f Queen Charlotte's Sound kill the birds wi th flicks, and,
after Ikinning them, efteem the flelh as good food. They are
known at New Zealand' by the name of Korora. Thefe birds
I have found to vary both in fize and'colour: fome are much
fmaller than others, quite black above, and meafure only thirteen
inches in length : others rather larger, and of a plaiir lead-
colour on the upper parts, and the wings black ; though all are
white, or nearly lo, beneath. The legs in thele two laft are
marked with black at the ends of the toes j and the claws are
black.
Place and
Manners.
m M
HI
d
jÉl
b i l l »
f g H
. t B I m\
'cJS*L
» m
G Btsua