[Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] by Phillip Parker King]@TWC D-Link book
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]

CHAPTER 5
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The uropygium also, which in the European bird is entirely white, is in our specimen partially variegated with black.

The marginal webs of the toes are much more dilated.

The whitish lunular mark under the eye of H.ostralegus, is entirely wanting in our species, of which the margin of the eye seems to be of a reddish tinge, of the same colour as the bill.

This bird is common upon the shores of the continent generally; it is called by the colonists the Red Bill.
10.

Aptenodytes minor.Gmel.Syst.1 558.
The Little Penguin, Latham.
This bird is common in all parts of the Southern Ocean.


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