Der Rotfusspinguin | The red-footed Pinguin

The red-footed Pinguin
Size. Inferior to the last.
Bill. Thick, arched, and red.
Plumage. Like in texture to that of the former; the head, hind part of the neck, and the back, of dusky purplish hue; breast and belly white.
Wings. Brown, but the tips of the larger feathers white.
Tail. None, in lieu of it a few black bristles.
Legs. Red.
History. This seems to be the African species; for all that have described the South American kinds attribute to them black legs. This is found on Penguin isle, near the Cape of Good Hope, of which Sir Thomas Roe, in bis Voyage to India, gives this brief relation: "On the isle of Penguin is a fort of fowl of that name, that goes upright; his wings without feathers, hanging down like fleeves faced with white; they do not fly, but walk in parcels, keeping regularly their own quarters."
Lest the bird known, by the name of Penguin, in the northern parts of Europe and America, should be confounded with these, it may be observed, that it is of another genus; and it is by the later ornithologists very justly ranked with the Auks.

In: "Account of the different Species of the Birds, called Pinguins" by Thomas Pennant, Esquire, F.R.S. March 17, 1768. 

Thomas Pennant (* 14. Juni 1726 in Whitford, Flintshire; † 16. Dezember 1798) war ein walisischer Naturwissenschaftler, Ornithologe, Zoologe und Altertumsforscher.