BIRDS. 



Plate VIII. 



Four heads of the King Penguin {Ajitemd[ites patajonica). Fig. 1 is drawn from 

 the head of a young liird in the down, taken at the Macquarie Islands in November; 

 fig. 2 represents the head of a young bii-d upon the completion of the moult from the 

 down, also taken in November : fig. ;'., the head of an ordinary adult in full plumage ; 

 fig. 4, the head of an extraordinary adult in which the golden pigment has been 

 developed to a very unnsual extent. Approximately one-half natural size. {See Aves, 

 pp. 35, 36.) 



