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covered witli a smooth, naked skin ; tail very short ; tarsi covered 

 with short feathers." — BuUer. 



Aptcnodytcs pcnnanti. King Penguin. The upper surface, 

 including the head, throat, and fore neck, bluish-grey, becoming 

 darker on the hind part of the neck. A patch of golden yellow 

 on each side of the nape, which is continued downwards, to meet 

 on the front of the neck, the yellow colour gradually fading away 

 into the white of the upper breast. The under parts white or 

 whitish-cream ; bill black, save the base of the lower mandible, 

 which is pinkish ; legs and feet black. Length very variable (dried 

 skins)— 34 to 37 inches ; wings, 10.75 to 11.25 inches ; bill, 4.2 to 

 4.5 inches. Egg, 4.0 to 4.3 inches, tapering at one end ; colour- 

 inside shell beautiful pale blue, outside chalky-white. 



My acquaintance with this variety is only in zoological gardens, 

 museums, and the examination of skins (adults and young) and 

 eggs. Hutton and Drummond give the Macquarie Islands only 

 as the habitat. Sir Douglas Mawson says : — " The site of the 

 rookery (Macquaries) is a stony fiat about one hundred yards 

 from the water's edge, and here are collected five or six thousand 

 birds — all that now remain on this island." Dr. Kidder states 

 that it breeds at Kerguelen Island, but he secured no eggs there. 

 One at least of the adult skins I have examined was secured at 

 Stewart Island, where Buller says it breeds. It does not do so 

 now, although it has been reported by some, who mistake the 

 Yellow-eyed Penguin for this species. Stragglers are said to 

 occur in the most unlikely places. I have even been told that 

 it is occasionally- seen at and around Taiaroa Heads, but I did not 

 meet with it during a two and a half years' .stay in that djstrict. 

 During the months of November and December, when, according 

 to locahty, the nesting'' season commences, only one egg is laid, 

 which is incubated in a sort of pouch formed by a fold of heavily- 

 feathered skin completely covering the egg when it is rested on 

 and between the feet. The period of incubation is said to be 

 35 days. • The chick is covered with a greyish-brown, coarse, 

 furry growth, and looks far larger when three or four months 

 old "than, an adult. The full plumage, with the characteristic 

 yellow patches, is not assumed until the second year. 



Genus Pygoscelis. 



Bill moderate both in length and stoutness ; lower mandible 

 more or less feathered. Tail long, of 12 to 16 feathers. Upper 

 tail coverts short. 



Pygoscelis papua. Rock-Hopper, or "Johnny" (" Gentoo 

 Penguin " of Dr. Bruce). — The upper plumage slaty-grey, with 

 the head and neck darker. The summit of the head marked with 

 a conspicuous white patch. Bill dark reddish. Eye brown. 

 Length variable — 29 to 31 inches ; wing, 8.8 to 9.3 inches ; bill, 

 2.9 to 3.2 inches ; tail, 1.3 inches. Egg roundish in shape, 2.6 to 

 2.9 inches in length ; colour dark sea-green inside, cha'ky-white 

 outside, though generally stained^ with soil and guano. 



