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parts strongly washed with penguin-blue. Bill brownish-red. 

 Stands 19 inches high, and seems overstuffed; tail under 3, but 

 still the coverts so short that the rectrices noticeably project. 

 Chord of culmen 1.40 ; gape 1.75 ; height of bill at base .75 ; from 

 antire to tip of bill 1.00 ; tarsus under 1.00 ; middle toe and claw 

 under 2.50. 



No. 45,513, Mus. Smiths. Inst., Orange Bay, Antarctic Ocean, 

 TJ. S. Ex. Ex., J. W. Dyes, Feb. 1839 ; exactly like the last. 



No. 45,512, Mus. Smiths. Inst., Cape Horn, U. S. Ex. Ex., T. R. 

 Peale. Similar, but plumage a little more advanced. The dark 

 gular area is here apparent, while the blackish feathers of the 

 vertex and the j-ellowish superciliary bundles are a little longer, 

 yet the latter do not form crests. 



These three specimens represent the " Aptenodytes chrysocome V 

 of Peale, I. c. They appear to have been overlooked, unaccount- 

 ably, hy Mr. Cassin, when he did Mr. Peale's work over again; 

 for the L T . S. Ex. Ex. Ornithology contains no allusion to them. 



No. . . . Mus. Acad. Philada., " Cape Horn. Presented by Dr. 

 Paischenberger, 5th Aug. 1857. J. C." Not adult, the throat 

 being only partially blackish, and the crests merely indicated by 

 yellow superciliary lines. It closely resembles three Smithsonian 

 specimens. Chord of culmen 1.60 ; bill weak ; tail barely 3 inches. 

 It may be considered a suspicious circumstance that all these spe- 

 cimens referable to catarractes on account of the weak bill, short 

 tail and slight crests, show characters reasonably explicable upon 

 ground of immaturity. 



No. . . . Mus. Bost. Soc, adult, Falkland Islands, Coll. La 

 Fresna}'e. (Hyatt.) 



EUDYPTES CHEYSOCOME (Forst.). 



Aptenodytes cJirysocome, Forst., Coram. Soc. Reg. Sc. G6tt. hi. 1781, 135, 



pi. i. LiciiTEXSTEix, Ed. Descr. Forst. 1844, 99. ? Gmelin, S. N. ii, 1788, 



555, No. 1. (Quotes Forster and P.E. 984.) 

 Splieniscus chrysocome, Schl., M. P.-B. ix. 1866, Uriu. 6. 

 Eudyptes cJirysocome, Gould, B. Anst., vii. pi. 83 (testibus speciminibus 



typicis). Scl., P.Z.S. 1860, 392. 

 Eudyptes pacliyvliynclia, Gray, Voy. E. & T. Birds, , pi. 17. Gray 



and MiTcnELL, G. of B. iii. pi. 176. Gray, Handlist, iii. 1871, 98. 

 Eudyptes nigrivcstis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1860, 418. 

 Eudyptes nigriventris ! Gray, Handlist, iii. 1811, 98, lapsu. 

 ? ? Planchc Enluminee, No. 984. 



