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Emperor. 



it is divided, like the back, by a pro- 

 miiieut dash of the same colour. 



Black colour under the throat of 

 short extent, aiid divided iu the 

 middle by a pencil-shaped set of 

 white feathers near the fauces. 



King. 



bright orauge-colour, that gradually 

 becomes white on the breast. 



Black under the throat, terminat- 

 ing in a blunt point at the fauces. 



To avoid confusion in future, Gray proposes to indicate the Emperor by 

 the name of A. Forsteri, and the King by that of A. Pennantii. 



A new species, Aptenodytes imdina, smaller than A. minor, and from 

 Van Diemeu's Land, has been established by Gould, in ' Ann. Nat. Hist.' 

 xiv, p. 504 He has also figured, in the ' Birds of Australia,' Sphenisew 

 minor, n. 16, and Podiceps australis, u. 17. 



