| Summary: | penguin n For a summary discussion of the obscure origin, see the _OED_ note and W.B. Lockwood, _Zeits f�r Ang und Amer_ 17 (1969), 262-4. A large, flightless bird once living in large numbers on Funk Island, extinct since the nineteenth century; [_Pinguinus impennis_]; attrib in coastal names; GREAT AUK. [1536] 1600 HAKLUYT iii,130 They came to part of the West Indies about Cape Briton, shaping their course thence Northeastwardes, vntill they came to the Island of Penguin, which is very full of rockes and stones, whereon they went and found it full of great [reverse] foules white and gray, as big as geese, and they saw infinite numbers of their egges. They drave a great number of the foules into their boats vpon their sayles. WK GMS 4/80 4/80 Used I and Sup Used I Used I pinwing Card was found in withdrawn drawer, refiled, reverse side of P_16154
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