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Southern C ^ross. 



Tlu- ilistriltution of the Kihiktoi- I'eiiguin is <.dveu by Mr. Howard 

 Saunders in the 'Antarctic Manual' (p. 227), as 'ranging longitu- 

 dinally to loT K. in Victoria Quadrant, through Eoss Quadrant, and 

 to about 50' W. in Weddell Quadrant." No authenticated egg of 

 this bird is known to exist; but Mr. Saunders mentions a large 

 I'enguin's egg in the possession of Mr. J. H. Walter, of Drayton 

 House, Norwich, said to have been procured in the "Antarctic 

 regions," j.rior to 185;'), which is bigger than any King Penguin's egg, 

 and inav well be that of an Emjjeror Penguin. 





EMPEROR PENGUINS. 

 (fftl itermimtion of Sir George Netwes, Bart.') 



Mr. Hull, in his ' Cruise of the "Antarctic,'" mentions meeting with 

 the large Penguin in the pack-ice in about 68° 21' S., 17G" 15' E., but 

 he calls it by mistake the ' King' Penguin, instead of the 'Emperor.* 

 Tlie latter is first recorded by Mr. Borchgrevink as having been met 

 with in the pack-ice on January 8th, and he chronicles the capture 

 of a pair on the 18th of the same month. His account of these birds 

 i.s practically the same as that in j\Ir. Hanson's private ' Diary ' 

 (antca, p. 87), and need not be repeated here. 



On ].. 224 of liis book, Mr. P.orehgrevink writes : " We saw com- 

 ]>aratively few of the Emperor Pengiiins (A. forstcri), and were not 

 i'l'l'- ♦■• lin.l their nesting-places. AVe came across odd ones in the 



