128 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



"This bird has a most beautiful golden crest, showing conspicuously on the middle of 

 the upper part of the head, commencing just behind the beak, and with a plume on each 

 side as in the bi-crested species. The bird is larger than the ' Eock-hoppers,' and is 

 further distinguished from them by the presence of a naked, somewhat tumid space at 

 the base of the beak, which is of a light pink colour. In other colouring the bird 

 resembles the Rock-hoppers. This Penguin occurs at the Falkland Islands, where it 

 nests, as at Kerguelen Island, in small quantities amongst the Rock-hoppers. 1 



" The birds, however, only thus nest amongst the other Penguins where they are few 

 in number ; towards the head of the harbour, and under the natural arch, they have 

 enormous rookeries of their own, where, singularly enough, a few of the Rock-hoppers 

 nest as guests amongst them ; they have large rookeries also in Heard Island, where their 

 eggs are gathered in large quantities by the sealers for eating." 



Mr Murray sends me the following notes on this Penguin : — 



" These birds were in immense numbers at Kerguelen. Their rookeries were generally 

 situated on the outlying points of rocks and headlands. At Christmas Harbour the 

 Rock-hoppers occupy the inner part of the south coast, and the Macaronis the outermost 

 part of the shore, the two rookeries running one into the other. Occasionally one may 

 find a few Macaronis nesting among the Rock-hoppers, and vice versa. 



" Like the Rock-hoppers they had sometimes one and sometimes two young birds in 

 a nest. 



" The sealers told us that they usually laid three egs, but pitched the first two out of 

 the nests for the Sheath-bills to eat ; these first eggs were generally much smaller than the 

 other eggs. We got some of these at the Falklands, where the sealers called them 

 1 first year's ' or ' virgin eggs.' The small eggs are probably the same as the small eggs 

 found in the nests of the common Hen, Pheasant, Partridge, &c." 



6. Eudyptes chrysocome, Forst. (PI. XXX.). 



Aptenodytes chrysocome, Eorst., Nov. Comm. Gofct., vol. iii. p. 135 (partim). 



Catarractes chrysocome, Brandt, Bull. Ac. Ptjt., vol. ii. p. 314. 



Eudyptes chrysocome, Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, p. 390 ; Scl. et Salv., Ibid., 1878, p. 654. 



Eudyptes nigrivestris, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, p. 418. 



Eudyptes saltator, Sharpe, Zool. Kerg., p. 60. 



[a-e. Inaccessible Island. 

 f, g. Males. Kerguelen. 



h, i. Adults. Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen. 

 j, k. Adults. Kerguelen. 



/. Young. Kerguelen. 



m, n. Males, in down. Falklands. 



o. Young, in down. Falklands.] 



1 See Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 527. 



