from New Zealand and adjacent Islands. 551 



fore-neck and chest chestnut , spotted with black (in this respect 

 somewhat resembling immature specimens of 0. earli) ; middle 

 of the breast and belly greyish-brown, shading into dull 

 greyish-rufous on tin sides and Hanks, some of the feathers 

 of the former with the middle barred with chestnut and 

 black; under tail-coverts chestnut barred with black. 

 Upper mandible slaty-brown; lower mandible flesh-colour 

 at the base, slate-colour towards the tip; legs red, darkish 

 brown on the hinder aspect of the tarsus. 



Total length in the flesh 18 inches; culmen 1*8; wing to 

 the end of the secondaries 65 ; tail 4'6; tarsus 2" 15. 



Male (type). Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, Xew Zealand, 

 8th October, 1899. Weight 22| oz. Obtained by Commander 

 R. F. Ayscough, R.N., 11. M.S. ' Ringdove/ 



" The specimen was shot when feeding along the beach 

 (wooded), elose to the water's edge/' — R. F. A. 



Adult female similar to the male. 



Eight examples of Ocydromus procured by Dr. E. A. 

 Wilson on the Macquarie Islands undoubtedly belong to 

 this species, and are no doubt the descendants of birds 

 imported there from Stewart Island. 



Dr. Wilson has kindly furnished me with coloured sketches 

 shewing the soft parts of the adult males and females 

 procured in November on Macquarie Island : — Iris red ; 

 bill reddish towards the base, dusky along the culmen, and 

 inclining to blackish at the tip ; legs and feet reddish 

 flesh-colour, tarsi brown on the hinder aspect. 



7. Aptenodytes patagonica Forster. 



Aptenodytes pennanti Filhol, Mem. Ac. France, Pass. 

 Venus, Miss, de File Campbell, iii. pt. ii. p. 57 (1885). 



Aptenodytes patagonica Grant, Cat. 13. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 

 p. 627 (1898). 



a. Adult. New Zealand. 



8. Pygoscelis papua Forster. 



Pyyuscetis papua Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 631 



(1898). 



