ANSERES. 99 



Ocean again as soon as the parental obligations are discharged. 

 Andubon fonnd them breeding in large numbers in the Gulf 6i 

 Mexico and on the Florida Keys.'" — Buller. 



166. Tachypetes minor. Gml. 



Small Frigate-bird. 



Black, with bluish metallic reflections, more or less distinct ; lanceolate feathers of the 

 hack and on the sides of the breast, brilliant, and changing from purple to green according 

 to the light ; upper wiug-coverts and sides of the body, tinged with brown. 



L., 36 ; W., 23 ; B., 425. 



" This smaller species of Frigate-bird, which roams over the seas 

 washing the shores of the more tropical parts of Australia, has 

 occurred at least once as a straggler on the New Zealand coast, and 

 is therefore entitled to a place in our list. A fine adult male was 

 taken on the Wakapuaka beach in the early part of 1861 ; and the 

 skin, which was fortunately preserved, noAv forms part of the collec- 

 tion of birds in the Nelson Museum." — Buller. 



PTILOPTERI. Penguins. 



Wings, short, covered with scale-like feathers ; tail, composed of narrow, rigid feathers ; 

 tarsi, very short ; anterior toes united by a web ; hind toe very small and united to the 

 tarsus. 



Southern Hemisphere. 



Aptenodttes. Fo)'st. 



Bill, longiT than the head, rather slender ; lower mandible covered with a smooth naked 

 skin ; tail, very short ; tarsi, covered with short featliers. 



167. Aptenodytes pennantii. Graj/. 



The whole of the head, napo, tliroat, and upper forc-ueek black ; hind-neck and entire 

 upper surface bluish-black, each feather centred with pale-blue ; on each side of the nape a 

 large round spot of golden yellow, continued downwards in narrow diagonal stripes which 

 meet and spread on the fore-neck, fading away tow^jrds the breast ; all the undcr-parts white. 

 Bill, black ; the sides of the lower mandible reddisii-brown ; feet, black. 



L., 35; W., 11; B., 425. 



Hab^ — Stewart Island ; South Sea Islands. 



EuDTPTES. Vie ill. 

 Nostrils linear, the frontal feathers advancing to the opening ; tail, rather long. 



168. Eudyptes antipodum. Sombr. et Jacq. 



Great Penguin. Hoiho. 



Top of the head, yellow, finely streaked with black, margined by a broad liglit-j-ellow 

 band, wliich runs from tlie eye to the back of the head ; sides of the face and throat, deli- 

 cate light grcyish-bi'own, tinged with yellow below tlie gape ; sides of the neck, greyish- 

 brown, sluiding into blue black at the back of the neck ; back, blue-black ; wings, the fame, 

 tipped with a band of white ; tail, brownish-black ; under-surface, white. 



L., 31-5 ; W., 9 ; B., 3; T., 12. 



Hnh. — South Island. 



