NO. 1116. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



6G1 



Specific characters. — Similar to 8. magellaniciis (Forster^), from the 

 Falkland Islands and Straits of Magellan, but with longer and more 

 slender bill; mandible with basal two-thirds or more yellowish, instead 

 of wholly black; size less; chin white; postocular white stripe much 

 narrower; no well-dertned dusky band across fore neck (above the one 

 across chest), and without whitish posterior margin to wing. Length 

 (skin), about 17.50; wing (from insertion), about H.oO; cuhnen, I'.llO; 

 middle toe, with claw, 2.30-2.40. 



ASCEHTAINED RANGE OF THE C.EXUS SPHENISCI'S, HRISSOX, IX THE (lAI.Al'AGOS 



AHCHIPELAGO. 



1. Splieniscus mendiculus, Snudevall. 



Eanr/e. — (xalapagos Archipelago : Albemarle Island {A Ihafross) ; South 

 Albemarle Island (liaur and Adams); PostOtticc Bay, Charles Island 

 (Wolf); James Island (Kinberg, Baur and Adams). 



Adult.— ^o. 115982, U.S.:N".M. ; Albemarle Island, April 10, 188S ; C. H. 

 Townsend. Above slate-black, each feather with a subterminal pair of 



^Aptenodytes magellanicus, Forster, Nov. Comm. Gott., Ill, 5, p. 143, pi. v. — 

 SjjhcniscKS mar/ellanicus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18(30, }>. 390. 



