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of the lower part of their belly, and gradually lowering them- 

 selves till their breasts touch the ground, the male bird of each 

 pair standing upright alongside of the female. A Crested Cor- 

 morant makes a nest composed of mud and sea-weed, and lays 

 indiscriminately among these Penguins. I was once amused to 

 see three of the Cormorants attack the nest of an absent Penguin 

 and steal nearly the whole of it, adding it to their own. As 

 soon, however, as the proprietor returned, they left off, and 

 the latter did not appear to take any notice of the robbery 

 that had been committed. These Cormorants lay three eggs, 

 about the middle of November. Both Aptenodytes chrysocome 

 and Eudyptes papua suffer much from the depredations of a 

 Skua Gull {Lestris antarctica), which is always on the watch 

 to carry away their eggs ; consequently the ground near their 

 rookeries is covered with egg-shells. Lestris antarctica breeds 

 contiguously to the Penguin rookeries ; but as they do not lay 

 till the end of November or beginning of December (I saw 

 young ones and eggs on the 15th of December), they cannot 

 feed their young on Penguins' eggs, as the latter have all been 

 hatched previously to this : perhaps they steal the young ones. 



I have now to remark upon another Penguin which breeds 

 among the Rock-hoppers : this bird is called in the Falkland 

 Islands the Maccaroni Penguin ; its technical name I do not 

 know *. It has an orange-coloured crest. In a rookery of Rock- 

 hoppers in the North Camp, I counted fifteen of them among, 

 perhaps, twenty thousand of Aptenodytes chrysocome. They only 

 lay one egg to my knowledge; at least, I took one egg from under 

 nine different birds, and many of them were sat upon. They 

 come up and lay at the same time as Aptenodytes chrysocome. 



XLIV. — Notes on Birds observed in the Ionian Islands, and the 

 Provinces of Albania proper, Epirus, Acarnania, and Monte- 

 negro. By the Hon. Thomas L. Powys, F.Z.S. (Part IV.) 



[Concluded from page 239.] 

 160. Common Thick-knee. {GEdicnemus crepitans.) 

 Occasionally visits Corfu and Epirus in April and May. 



* Mr. Tristram has received from Capt. Abbott skins of this fourth 

 species, which he informs us is Eudyptes ckrysolophiis, Brandt. — Ed. 



