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example of the last-named species for His Excellency the 

 Governor. It has peculiar flat, button-like eyes. 



A bird undergoing the first moult (February) presents the 

 following features : Yellow facial streak broad and distinct, in 

 a line with the nostrils, but at present extending only lin. 

 beyond the head ; throat black, with well-defined lower mar- 

 gin, the old white plumage still adhering to the chin for the 

 space of lin. from the angle of the crura of the lower mandible, 

 and giving a very peculiar appearance to the head. The old 

 dark plumage is still clinging to the forehead, and the featliers 

 are peeling off the flippers ; but all the body-plumage has been 

 completely renewed. 



Young of first year differs from the adult in having the 

 plumage duller, and the throat dark-grey, shading into the 

 dark plumage on the sides of the head ; broad superciliary 

 streak of white springing not far from the angles of the mouth. 

 At the first moult the white streak is replaced by a golden 

 crest, the feathers of which project beyond the head. Bill 

 dark-brown, and less robust than in the adult. 



Aptenodytes longirostris, Scop. (King Penguin.) 



On looking over a book of cuttings, I find that I omitted to 

 notice in my "Birds of New Zealand" an interesting notice 

 of this species wdrich appeared in a southern paper in August, 

 1878 : " A very handsome King Penguin was exhibited [at 

 the Otago Institute] last evening. Professor Hutton said it 

 was caught at Moeraki a short time ago, and that its exist- 

 ence proved that the King Penguin was really an inhabitant 

 of NeviT Zealand." 



Eudyptes atratus, Hutton. (Black Penguin.) 



A local ornithological event of some interest is the dis- 

 covery of another example of the Black Penguin, described 

 and named by Professor Hutton in 1875, from a specimen ob- 

 tained at the Macquarie Islands, a group of sea-girt rocks 

 lying about six hundred miles to the south-west of Stewart 

 Island. For many years this was the only known example. 

 It belonged to the fine collection of birds in the Otago 

 Museum, and was lent to me by Professor Parker for the pur- 

 pose of being figured in the second edition of my "Birds of 

 New Zealand." A beautiful drawing of it was made by Mr. 

 Keulemans, in association with Eudyptes antipodum, for the 

 plate which faces page 294 in vol. ii. Unfortunately, the 

 specimen itself was lost, with many other treasures, in the 

 wreck of the " Assaye " on her return voyage to New Zealand. 

 The present example, which also comes from the Macquarie 

 Islands, is a somewhat larger bird, and is apparently quite 

 mature ; but apparently it had only recently moulted, as the 



