The Penguins of Erebus and Terror Culf. B30 
throw from high-water mark, on the top of a horseshoe- 
shaped hillock, and consisted of some forty nests. No paths 
were seen to approach it from the sea, nor could a path well 
have been beaten down in the hard stoney clay which 
formed the hillock. Each nest was composed of small stones 
or clayey earth heaped together into the shape of a small 
conical mound, with a depression some 3 inches deep in 
.the centre. This latter was lined with feathers and down 
from the parents, most of which showed upon the lower 
part of their breasts a strip of bare red skin from which the 
feathers had been pulled. Rather more than half the eggs 
were already hatched; and in many of the nests one of the 
two egos was already hatched, while it was still possible to 
blow the other. I did not notice a difference in the size 
of the two eggs, such as is described by Mr Sharp in his 
paper on Kerguelen Land. Two eges brought home are 
of a chalky white colour with a faint tinge of blue, and 
measure 2°7 inches by 2:2 inches, being thus distinctly larger 
than those of the Pygoscelis Adelie. 
No crested penguins of any species were seen by any 
of the Dundee ships south of the Falklands. But Captain 
Larsen of the Norwegian sealer “ Jasen” saw, on the South 
Orkneys, a rookery of birds, which he describes as being 
intermediate in size between the Emperor and the Pygoscelis 
Adelie, having a yellow patch under each eye and a red 
supraciliary crest extending backwards on each side of the 
head to a length of 3 to 4 inches. Captain Larsen is an acute 
and careful observer, and tock great interest in the natural — 
history of the voyage. He had preserved two specimens 
of this penguin, but both had disappeared—having been 
removed by the crew. Captain Larsen repeated his de- 
scription to me on two occasions in identical terms. This 
description does not tally with that of any other species, and 
no crested form has, as yet, been described as inhabiting the 
South Orkneys. I am left with the impression that an 
entirely new species is probably indicated. 
1 Phil. Trans., clxviii. 
