94 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



selecting the top of a mound of AzorcUa (a densely growing plant on the 

 island) and scratching therein a shallow cavity. But one tgg was found at 

 any time in a nest; yet we have good reason for believing that these pen- 

 guins rear two young in a season, laying a second ^^^ about two months 

 after the first, and before the young bird has left the nest. The eggs are 

 obtusely ellipsoid, some specimens being almost spherical ; white with a 

 very pale greenish tint." (Kidder, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 3, p. 18, (1876).) 



Pygoscelis ANTARCTICA (Forstcr). 



Aptcnodytes atitarctica, Forst. Nov. Comm. Gotting. III. p. 141, pi. IV. 



(1781); Miller, Cim. Phys. pi. XL (1796); Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 



56 (1844). 

 Antarctic Pinguin, Lath. Gen. Syn. III. pt. 2, p. 565 (1785). 

 Aptenodytes antarcticus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I. p. 557 (1788). 

 Aptenodyta antarctica, Bonn. Enc. Meth. I. p. 69, pi. 17 fig. 4 (1790). 

 Piiigitiiiaria antarctica, Shaw in Miller, Cim. Phys. p. 78 (1796). 

 SplietiiscHS antarcticus, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. p. 67 (1825) ; 



Reichenb. Syst. Av. Natatores pi. II fig. 737 (1848); Schl. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, VI. Urinat. p. 5 (1867 : Falkland IsL). 

 Pygoscelis antarctica, Gray, List B. pt. III. p. 154 (1844); Bp. C. R. xlii. 



P- 775 (1856) ; Hyatt, Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist. XIV. p. 250 



(1871); Coues, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1872, p. 199; Milne Edwards, 



Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) IX. Art. IX. p. 59 (1880); Steinen, Internat. 



Polarforsch. Deutschen. Exped. II. pp. 237, 276 (1890: S. Georgia); 



Oust. Sci. Miss. Cap Horn p. B. 322 (1891); Donald, Proc. Roy. 



Soc. Edinb. XX. p. 174 (1894); id. Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. XII, p. 



334 (1894) ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVI, p. 634 (1898) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-List B. I. p. 118 (1899). 

 Eiidyptes antarctica, Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 641 (1846); Reichenb. Syst. Av. 



Natatores, pi. cclxiv. fig. 2221 (1848); Gray, Hand-List B. III. p. 99, 



no. 10798 (1871); Sci. Ibis, 1894, p. 500. 

 Eiidyptes antarcticus Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 164; Sci. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 47 



(Falkland Isl., accidental visitor); Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos 



Aires, III. Part X. p. 250 (1888; Falkland Isl.). 



