BuLLER. — On New Zealand Ornithology. 355 



Eudyptes chrysocome, Forster. (Tufted Penguin.) 



I am able now to add to my account of this species a 

 description of the nesthng from a specimen obtained at Dusky 

 Sound. 



Head, throat, hind-neck, and upper parts — that is to say, 

 the surface that is coloured in the adult — covered with short 

 sooty-black down, and the under-parts with short white down; 

 bill whitish-horn colour ; feet pale-brown. 



In a more advanced chick — which is double the size of 

 that already described — the down is even shorter, as if rubbed 

 off, and the root-points of future feathers are disclosed, cover- 

 ing the surface in regular lines or series. 



The young of this species differs from the adult in being 

 appreciably smaller in size, and in having a whitish-grey 

 throat ; the long crests are absent, being represented by a tuft 

 of feathers little more than iin. in length, commencing imme- 

 diately above the eyes and extending back l^in. towards the 

 occiput ; pale lemon-yellow, with blue tips. Bill black, with 

 reddish-brown tips. 



Eudjrptes sclateri, BuUer. (Sclater's Penguin.) 



On the 25th February the " Hine^noa " brought from 

 Antipodes Island four living examples of this species and 

 ten of EudyjHes chrysocome. I am assured by the second 

 engineer (who is a collector of birds) that the former always 

 lays one egg and the latter two. EudyiJtes chrysocome { = E. 

 filholi, Hutton) is readily distinguishable from the other Pen- 

 guins by its full crest of lengthened yellow feathers and its red 

 eyes. Its home is Antipodes Island. But all those brought 

 on this trip were birds of the first } ear, in which the crest was 

 not yet developed. The examples of Eiidyptes sclateri inter- 

 ested me very much, because they too were young birds, but 

 somewhat more advanced, and just undergoing the first seasonal 

 moult — throwing off the adolescent plumage and assuming 

 that of the adult state. The young of this species has the 

 plumage of the upper parts much duller, being mixed with 

 brown, and the throat, instead of being black, is greyish-white, 

 darker in some specimens than others. In one of the two 

 which I secured the chin is white, and, this portion of the 

 plumage not having moulted off, the bird presents a singular 

 appearance, the white chin being very conspicuous. In the 

 young bird the superciliary streak, which is broad and well 

 defined, is white, instead of being golden-yellow, as in the 

 adult. This species is found both on Antipodes Island and 

 -on Campbell Island. It has never, I believe, been found on 

 the Auckland Islands. The species inhabiting that group is 

 Eudyptes antipodum. The "Hinemoa" brought up one live 



