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various localities in the islands, collected by the Zoological Society's 

 keeper Secante for the gardens. Five species were represented i. e., 

 the king (Aptenodytes pennanti], jackass (Spheniscus magellanicus], gen- 

 too (E^tdyptes chrysocome], macaroni (Pygoscelis wagleri], and rock- 

 hopper (Eudyptes nigrivestis] ; and they formed a most amusing assem- 

 blage some prancing up and down, with their little wings stuck out, 

 with an air of bustle and infinite self-importance, some walking slowly up 

 to us, and gazing at us with solemn curiosity, while others remained sta- 

 tionary and apparently lost in thought. 



"Of these species the rock-hopper (Eudyptes nigrivestis] is perhaps the 

 most common at the Falkland Islands; and two large 'rookeries,' as they 

 are termed, of these birds occur not very far from Stanley one at Kidney 

 Island, on the southern side of the entrance to Berkeley Sound, and the 

 other at Sparrow Cove, off Port William. Circumstances did not, to my 

 regret, permit of my visiting either of these, but I extract the following 

 short account of that at Sparrow Cove from Captain Mayne's Journal : 

 ' The rookery was in a sort of small cove, the sides of which, though not 

 perpendicular, were very steep, and about 100 feet high; the entrance to 

 the cove was narrow and steep, with rugged bluff rocks on either side, the 

 whole making a kind of rugged amphitheatre, with water for the pit. All 

 the sides were rugged, with projecting knobs of rocks jutting out in all 

 directions, and every part of the whole of this was covered with penguins. 

 My estimate of the number was the lowest made, and I guessed it at 

 20,000 ; but there might have been any number between that and 50,000 

 or 60,000.'" (Cunn. Nat. Hist. Str. Magell., 1871, pp. 292-293.) 



CATARRHACTES CHRYSOLOPHUS Brandt. 



Macaroni Penguin, Weddell, Voy. South Pole, p. 57 (1825 : South Georgia). 

 Catarhactes chrysohphus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. II. p.3i5 (1837). 

 Eudyptes demersiis (nee Linn.) Gray, List B. part III. p. 155 (1844). 

 Eiidyptes chrysolophus, Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 641, pi. 176 fig. i (1846); 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 390 (Falkland Isl.), 1861, p. 47; Abbott, Ibis, 



1861, p. 163; Scl. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 527; Hyatt. Proc. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. XIV. p. 250 (1872: Falkland Isl.); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 654; Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 311 (Falkland Isl.: eggs); Milne 



