138 Southern Cross. 



with a tinge of green. The ground-colour of , the egg beneath the 

 chalky surface seems to be a pale bluish-green. As incubation 

 proceeds, the eggs become stained and smeared with green and with 

 brown. The shape varies from almost perfectly round to a lengthened 

 and biconical form. The dimensions, therefore, vary considerably, 

 the extremes in a series of fourteen clutches being 2-2 x 2-35 and 

 3'2 X 2*35 inches. 



MEGADYPTES, Milne-Edwards. 

 Megadyptes antipodum. 



Catarrhactes antipodes, Hombr. and Jacq., Ann. Sci. Nat. (2), XVI., p. 320 

 (1841, Auckland Islands). 



Eudyptes antipodes. Gray, Voy. '£re?ms' and '■Terror,' p. 17 (1845, Auckland 

 and Campbell Islands, New Zealand). 



Aptenodytes flavilarvata, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., p. 260 (1848, Auckland 

 Islands). 



Eudyptes antipodum, BuUer, B. N. Zeal., p. 346 (1873, South Isl., N.Z.) ; Shai'iJe, 

 Voy. 'Erehus' and 'Terror; App., p. 35, pi. 27 (1875); Buller, B. N. Z., 

 2nd ed., II., p. 294, pi. 46, fig. 1 (1888); Scl, P Z. S. (1891), p. 121 (New 

 Zealand). 



Megadyptes antipodum, Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXVI., p 644 

 (1898, New Zealand, Auckland and Campbell Islands). 



Nos. 7, 8, $, Campbell Island, June 18th, 1899. 

 No. 9, ? , ad., „ „ Jime 19th, 1899. 



No. 10, (? , jnr., „ „ June 20th, 1899. 



These birds were obtained by Captain Jensen during the cruise 

 of the ship during the winter, when the 'Southern Cross' was absent 

 from Cape Adare. 



The old female seems to resemble the male in every respect, 

 excepting that the yellow on the head and nape is paler, and the 

 sides of the face are browner with very little yellow. The light 

 brown throat-mark is paler and not so strongly pronounced. 



In the young bird the throat is entirely white, and there is a 

 little yellow on the cheeks and on the eyebrow, but no complete 

 circle round the nape. 



