144 sph:bniscid.e. 



Genus CATARRHACTES, Briss. 

 Catarrhactes chrysocome (Forst.). 



Apteaodytes clirvsocome, Thjen. Forfpjlanz. ges. Voy. tab. c. fig. 4 



(1845-54) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1860, p. 337. 

 Eudyptes nigrivestis, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 163. 

 EudVptes saltator, Sharps, Phil. Trans. 108. p. 160 (1879) ; Saunders, 



't. c. p. 165 (1879). 

 Eudyptes chrysocome, Scl. ^- Sale. Zool. ' Challenrjer' Exped. ii. pt. viii. 



"p. l-'8 (1880); Scl. t. c. p. 15J (1880) ; Bidler, Birds Neiv Zeal. 2nd ed. 



ii. p. 290 (1888) ; Hall, Ibh, 190O, p. 32. 

 CataiThactes chrysocome, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 6.35 (1898) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 118 (1899). 



The eggs of the Tufted Penguin vary much in shape. Some are 

 spheroidal, and others are of a short but broad oval form. Two 

 examples, however, are long and narrow, tapering to a point. The 

 smallest egg measures 1-63 by 1-38. Full-sized specimens vary 

 from 2-4 to 2-9.5 in length, and from 1-7 to 22 in breadth. 



11. Falkland Islands ( C. C. Abbott). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands, 4th Nov. Gould Coll. 



(C. C. A.). 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Falkland Islands. Voy. II. M.S. 'Challenger." 



6. Inaccessible Island. V'oy. II. M.S. ' Challenger.' 



2. Kerguelen Island {A. E. Eaton). Royal Society [P.]. 



Catarrhactes chrysolophus {Brandt). 



Eudyptes chrysolophus, Abbott, Ibis, ISfJO, p. 338; 1861, p. 103; Scl. ^• 



Salv. Zool. ' Chullenyer' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 127 (1880) ; Scl. t. c 



p. 1.52 (1880). 

 Aptenodytes, sp. inc.*, Scl. Zool. ' Challeiu/er' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 151 



(1880). 

 Catarrhactes chrysolophus. Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 641 (1898) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 118 (1899). 



The eggs of the Macaroni Penguin are broad ovals with a 

 tendency, in some cases, to the pyriform. 



The specimens procured by the ' Challenger ' expedition on 

 Kerguelen Island are all undersized, the smallest measuring 2-4 

 by 1'8. Full-sized examples measure from 3 to 3"45 in length, and 

 from 2-2 to 2-5 in breadth. They are consequently very much 

 larger than those of C. chr>/socome. 



3. Falkland Islands (C. C. Abbott). Gould CoU. 



2. Falkland Islands (c. C. A.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



» There can be little doubt that the eggs found on Heard Island by the 

 ' Challenger ' Expedition, and which were undetermined at the time, are 

 the effs of C. chrysolophus. They agree well with eggs of this species from the 

 Falkland and Crozet Islands. 



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