650 



IMPENNES. 



throat, and sides of the head black ; a curved black band across the 

 chest, continued down each side of the body to the tail, widest on 

 the sides and becoming very narrow where it passes between the 

 thighs and the belly ; a wide superciliary stripe commencing above 

 the lores and continued along the side of the crown ; sides and 

 front of neck and rest of the underparts pure white, the breast and 

 belly with irregular scattered spots of black ; upper surface of 

 flippers dark blackish grey, below white, with irregular patches and 

 mottlings of black. In some specimens there is a patch of white 

 feathers at the root of the tail. Tail composed of 20 feathers. 

 " Iris dark brown ; bill blue-black, with a transverse bar of livid 

 flesh-colour across both mandibles " (C. J. Andersson). Total length 

 about 27 inches. 



Immature. Ilesembles the immature of S. humholdti described 

 below. 



Bill. 



Gape 

 to tip. 

 in. 



Adult . 2-7-2-9 



Flipper. Tail. 



2-yo-2-5 



8-0-8-4 



1-5-1-6 



Middle toe 

 and claw, 

 in. 



2-U-3-0 



Hub. Coasts of South Africa, extending on the West coast at 

 least as lar north as Walwich Bay and adjacent islands. 



a-d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



/,ff. Ad. et 2 iiuni. sk. 



h-m. c? ad. et imm. sk. 



11, o. Ad. et imni. st. 

 p-s. Pulls. St. et sk. 

 t-z. Ad. imm. et pull. 



(in spirits). 

 «', b'. Ad. et juv. 



skeletons. 

 r' . 1mm. skeleton. 

 d'. Ad. skeleton. 



Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 

 C.ipe of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope 



{Layard). 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Spheniscus humholdti. 



' Challenger ' Exped. 

 Old Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Mr. J. Abrahams 



[P.]. 

 Zool. Soc. Coll. 

 Old Coll. 

 'Challenger' E.\ped. 



' Challenger ' Exped. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Mr. J. Abrahams 



[P.]. 



Spheniscus humboldti, Meyen, Nov. Act. Acad. Cces. Leop.-Carol. 



xvi. Si/ppl. p. 110, p. 21 (1834) [Peru] : Tschudi, Faun. Peru. 



p. 315 (1840-46); G. li. Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 640 (1846); 



V. Pet. Reise Aovara, Vcig. p. 142 (1865) [ChiU] ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1867, pp. 337, 340; Peed, Ibis, 1874, p. 83 [Juan Fernandez]; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1875, p. 377 ; Bartleft, P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 6-9, figs. 1, 2 



[moult and habits] ; Sclater S,- Salvin, Voy. Chad., Zool., Birds, 



p. 126, woodcut (1880) [Chili, Peru] ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 499 



(1886). 

 Spheniscus demersus, Schlegel (nee Linn.), Mus. Pays-Bas, vi. 



Urinat. p. 10 (1867) [part, Peru]; Coues, P. Ac. Philad. 1872, 



p. 209 [part]. 

 Eudyptes humboldtii, G. E. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 99 (1871), 



