3. CATARRnACTES, 635 



3. CATAERHACTES. „ 



Type. 



Oatarractes, Briss. {nee Moehring, 1752) Orn. vi. 



p. 102 (17(50) C. chrysocome. 



Eudyptes, Vieill. Analyse, pp. 67, 70 (1816) ; Hyatt, 



P. Bost. Sue. xiv. p. '244 ( 1872) C. chrysocome, 



ChrysoGoma, Steph. in Shave's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. 



p. 57 (1825) C. chrysocome. 



Microdyptes, M.-Edivards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) ix. 



art. 9, p. 58 (1880) ; Reichenoio ^ Schalow. J.f. O. 



1882, p. 112 C. chrysocome. 



Bill moderately long and very stout, the culmiiiicorn divided by 

 a deep groove from the latericoru, which is much swollen towards 

 the base. Feathering at the angle of the gape leaving the tomia 

 and greater part of the base of the upper and lower mandibles 

 exposed. Tail relatively very long, composed of 14 or 16 feathers ; 

 upper tail-coverts short. A superciliary band of more or less 

 elongate golden feathers. 



Baivje. Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands to the New 

 Zealand Archipelago. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Superciliary bands not united with one 



anotlier on the forehead, which is imiform 

 black. 



A . Superciliaiy band of golden feathers greatly 



elongate posteriorly chrysocome, p. 635. 



B. Superciliary band of golden feathers not 



greatly elongate posteriorly. 



a. Sides of the culminicorn divergent from 

 the nasal opening ; narrow white edge 

 to the inner margin of the flipper com- 

 posed of one row of feathers pachyrhynchus, p. 638. 



h. Sides of the culminicorn running almost 

 parallel to one another from the nasal 

 opening; white inner margin of the 

 flipper wider and composed of two rows 

 of feathers sclateri, p. 640. 



II. Superciliary bands uniting with one another 



on the forehead. 



c. Lores, chin, throat, and sides of the head 



and neck blackish chrysolophtis, p. 641. 



d. Lores, chin, throat, and sides of the head 



and neck pure white schlegeli, p. 643. 



1. Catarrhactes chrysocome. 



The Penguin, Echrarrh, Glean. N. Hist. i. p. 49, pi. 49, ii. pi. 94 



[head on left] (1748) [immature]. 

 Le Gorfou, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 102 (1760). 

 Phaeton demersus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 219 (1766) [nee Diomedea 



demersa, p. 214]. 

 The Red-footed Pinguin, Pennant, Fhil. Trans. Iviii. p. 98 (1768) ; 



Latham, Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 572 (1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. x. 



p. 386 (1824). 

 Le Manchot hup6 de Siberie, DWubent. PL L'nl. x. pi. 59 [no. 984]. 



