lOO PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Wing (Flipper) : Upper surface colored like the back, and edged pos- 

 teriorly with white. Lower surface white, with the anterior margin, the 

 tip and an area on the basal portion of the posterior margin dusky or 

 black. 



Tail: Like the back in color and composed of sixteen (i6) feathers. 



"Iris deep pink; bill orange; tarsus and toes white." (Kidder.) 



"Lnmature birds differ in having the chin ashy white and the throat 

 blackish. In still younger examples the throat is ashy white, and the 

 yellow superciliary crest merely indicated by a yellowish-white line. 

 (Mus. Rothschild)." (W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVI. 

 p. 637, 1898.) 



GeogmpJiical Range. — Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands; 

 the Cape Seas, and Kerguelen Island ; Tasmania and South Australia and 

 the New Zealand Group. 



The Crested Penguin was not obtained by the Princeton Expeditions to 

 Patagonia. The description is based on material in the British Museum 

 of Natural History. 



At Inaccessible Island, Dr. Mosely had an opportunity to study this 

 penguin and his account with some slight omissions is as follows: "After 

 breakfast, I landed, with one of the Germans as guide, with a large 

 party. (October 16, 1873.) As we approached the shore, I was aston- 

 ished at seeing a shoal of what looked liked extremely active very small 

 porpoises or dolphins. I could not imagine what the things could be, 

 unless they were indeed some most marvellously small cetaceans ; they 

 showed black above and white beneath, and came along in a shoal of fifty 

 or more, from seaward toward the shore at a rapid pace, by a series of 

 successive leaps out of the water, and splashed into it again, describing 

 short curves in the air, taking headers out of the water and headers into 

 it again ; splash, splash, went this marvellous shoal of animals, till they 

 went splash through the surf on to the black stony beach, and there 

 struggled and jumped up amongst the boulders and revealed themselves 

 as wet and dripping penguins, for such they were. 



"Much as I had read about the habits of penguins, I never could have 

 believed that the creatures I saw thus progressing through the water, were 



