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Dr. Kidder, in dealing with this species, graphically describes 

 its movements. "No living thing that ever I saw," he writes, 

 ''expresses so well a state of hurry as a penguin when trying 

 to escape. Its neck is stretched out, flippers whirring like the 

 sails of a windmill, and body wagging from side to side, as its 

 short legs make stmnbling and frantic efforts to get over the 

 ground. There is such an expression of anxiety written all over 

 the bird; it picks itself up from every fall, and stumbles again 

 with such an air of having an armful of bundles, that it escapes 

 capture quite as often by the laughter of the pursuer as by its 

 own really considerable speed." 



Genus Catarrhactes. 



Bill moderately long and very stout, the sides of the upper 

 mandible much swollen near the base. Tail long, composed of 

 14: or 16 feathers ; the upper tail coverts short. Southern Seas. 



Key to the Species. 



1. Yellow bands unitingon forehead. C. schlegeli. 

 Yellow band not uniting. 2 



2. Smaller, yellow feathers very long. C. chrysocome. 

 Larger, yellow feathers shorter. 3 



3. White edge on flipper narrow. C. pachyrhynchus. 

 White edge on flipper broader. C. sclateri. 



The Tufted Penguin. 



Catarrhacies chrysocome. 



Above, slaty grey, the head and throat darker; a band of golden 

 feathers over each eye, the posterior of wMch are niucli elongated and 

 drooping. Below, white. Flipper edged posteriorly with white. Eye, 

 red. Total length about 25 inches. Young birds have tlie chin and 

 throat greyish white. Egg — 2.5 inches in length, pale blue. Islands of 

 the Southern Ocean. Breeds on the Snares, Antipodes, Auckland, Camp- 

 bell, and Macquarie Islands, but not in great numbers. 



The bird is sometimes called the Victoria penguin by New 

 Zealanclers. 



