328 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Emperoi' Penguin . 



others are said to be among the skins. There is also a 

 skeleton^ of which I shall say something further on. All 

 these specimens were received from the Antarctic Expedition. 



(2) A fine mounted specimen in Sir Joseph Hooker's 

 private collection, also procured during the Antarctic Expe- 

 dition, which, as is well known, he accompanied as Naturalist 

 and Assistant-Surgeon. Sir Joseph informs me, in reply to 

 my inquiries, that this specimen was taken on the Southern 

 Ice-pack in January 1842, in about lat, 65° 48' S., long. 

 157° 30' W., and is one of those referred to in Hoss's ' Nar- 

 rative,' vol. ii. p. 158. 



(3) Two stuffed specimens in the Leyden Museum, — one 

 in imperfect plumage, and one young in down (see Schlegel, 

 Mus. d, P.-B. Urinatores, p. 3). The origin of these speci- 

 mens is not stated. 



(4) One example in the U.S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, obtained during the United States Exploring Expe- 

 dition. (See Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exp., Mamm. & Orn. p. 349, 

 and Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1872, p. 192). 



As regards the exact range of the Emperor Penguin, much 

 remains to be learned, but it appears to be now only found 

 on the shores of the Antarctic continent, and probably breeds 

 in the adjacent islands^. 



In the time of Cook's voyage it seems to have been met 

 with in South Georgia Island. Eorster's drawing (Icon, 

 ined. 81), to which I have referred above, is marked in pencil 

 (probably in his own handwriting) "Jan. 17th, 1775." On 

 reference to George Eorster's ' Narrative of Cook's Second 

 Voyage' (vol. ii. p. 528), we find tliat Tuesday, Jan. 17th, 

 1775, was the day on which Cook's Expedition landed in 

 South Georgia, and the subjoined account of this Penguin is 

 there given : — 



" Here we likewise found a flock of about twenty Pen- 

 guins, of a much greater size than any Ave had hitherto seen : 

 they Avere 39 inches long, and weighed 40 pounds. Their 



* In Possession Island (lat. 71° 50', long. 171° 7' E.) " inconceivable 

 myriads of Penguins completely and densely covered the whole surface " 

 (Ross's Narr. Ant.. Exp. i. p. 180). 



