634 TMPEJTNKS. 



3. Pygoscelis antarctica. 



Aptenodytes antarctica, Forstcr, Comment. Goithif/ensis, iii. p. 141, 



pi. iv. (1781) ; id. Icon. ined. pi. 82 ; G7nel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 557 



(1788) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 879 (1790) ; Miller, Cimelia 



Physica, pi. xl. (1796). 

 Antarctic Pinguin, Latham, Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 565 (1785) ; id. 



Gen. Hist. x. p. 389 (1824). 

 Aptenodyta antarctica, Bonnat. Tabl. Ejicycl. Meth. i. p. 69, pi. 17. 



%. 4(1790). 

 Pinguinaria antarctica, Sha^o in Miller, Cimelia Physica, p. 78 (1796). 

 Spheniscus antarcticus, Steph. in Shaws Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 67 



(1825) ; Reichenb. Natatores, pi. ii. lig. 737 (1850) ; Schleyel, Mus. 



Pays-Bas, vi. Urinat. p. 6 (18(57) [Falkland Is. ; Weddell I.]. 

 Pygoscelis antarctica, G. R. Gray, List B. pt. iii. p. 154 (1844) 



[lat. 64° S.] ; Hyatt, P. Bast. 8oc. xiv. p. 250 (1872) ; Coues, P. Ac. 



Philad. 1872, p. 199; Steinen, Inteniat. Polarforsch. Deutschen 



E.rped. ii. pp. 2.37, 276 (1890) [S. Georgia]; Donald, P. R. Soc. 



Edinb. XX. p. 174 (1894) [lat. 64° 12' S., long. 55° 40' W., off 



Seymour I.] ; id. P. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. xii. p. 334 (1894). 

 Eudyptes antarctica, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 641 (1846) ; 



Reichenb. Natatores, pi. cclxiv. iig. 2221 (1850) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 47 ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 164 [Falkland Is.] ; G. R. Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 99 (1871); id. Voy. Erebus ^- Terror, Birds, 



pi. 26 (1875) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1894, p. 500. 



Adult. Upper parts blue-grey, much like those of P. adeVue, but 

 the tips of the feathers are more brightly coloured ; lores, a band 

 above the eye, throat, sides and fore part of neck, and rest of 

 underparts pure white ; a narrow clearly marked bhick line crossing 

 the throat in a semicircle from ear to ear. Upper surface of flipper 

 like the back, and edged internally with white ; under surface white, 

 with the outer margin black and a black terminal patch. Tail 

 composed of 12 feathers in adult birds, 14 in young birds ; the 

 outermost pair drop out and are wanting in the adult. Total 

 length about 30 inches, culmen from feathers on nasal opening to 

 tip 1-4, from gape to tip 2-65, flipper from shoulder to tip 7*5, 

 tail 5, middle toe and claw 3'1. 



Adult in worn plumar/e. Upper parts brownish-black, the blue- 

 grey margins to the feathers almost entirely worn off. 



Hab. Falkland Islands, Weddell Island, South Georgia, and off 

 Seymour I. (lat. 64° 12' S., long. 55° 40' W.). 



a. S ad. st. Antarctic Seas, lat. 64° 9' S., .Antarctic Exped. 



long. 66° W. 



b. $ ad. sk. Antarctic Seas, lat. 64° 10' S., Antarctic E.rped. 



long. 54° W., Jan. 



c. Skull [out of 

 specimen 6]. 



