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THE ANIMALS OF NEW ZEALAND 



Tufted Penguins ; old aud younj. 



(ClialleiKjcr lii'port.) 



The Crested Penguin. — Tawiiakl 

 CatarrJiactes pachyrliynchus. 



Like the last in colours, but the yellow eye-stripe not so much 

 elongated, and the feathers not drooping. Posterior margin of the upper 

 surface of the flipper with a very narrow white margin of one row of 

 feathers only. Eye, brown. Total length about 28 in. In the young 

 the chin and throat are greyish white. Egg — 2.85 in. in length. New 

 Zealand only. Forms large rookeries on the Snares, and breeds in small 

 quantities on the southern coasts of New Zealand. (For a figure of this 

 bird see yature in New Zealand, p. 38.) 



