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Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 



Family SPHEXISCID^. 



Genus APTENODYTES. 



Aptenodytes Miller, Var. Subj. Nat. Hist. 1778, pi. 23. 

 Type (by raonotypy) : A. 'patacjonica Miller. 



Aptenodytes patagonica halli Mathews. King Penguin. 



Aptenodytes patagonica halli Mathews^ Birds Austr. vol. i. 

 1911, p. 272 ; Macquarie Island. 



Synonym : — 



Apteno(iytes ■ imtagonica Buller, Siippl. vol. i. p. 78. [The type- 

 locality of Aptenodytes patar/oniva Miller, loc. cit., is South 

 Georgia.] 



Range: — New Zealand Seas; Macquarie Island (breeding). 



Genus PYGOSCELIS. 



Pygoscelis Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 281. 

 Type (by monotypy) : P. papua (Forster) . 



Pygoscelis papua taeniata (Peale). Rock-Hopper. 



Aptenodytes tceniata Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, 

 18i8, p. 264 : Macquarie Island. 



Synonym : 



Pyyoscelis papua Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 84. [The type-locality of 

 Aptenodytes papua Forster, Comment. Gutting, vol. iii. 1781, 

 p. 140, is Falkland Islands.] 



Range: — Macquarie Islands (breeding). 



Genus EUDYPTES. 



Eudyptes Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. 1816, pp. Q7, 70. 



Type (by subsequent designation)': E.chrysocome (Forster) . 



Note : — When one of us (Mathews) in ' The Birds of 

 Australia/ vol. i. 1911, p. 276, used Penguinus Brlinnich to 

 replace Catarractes Brisson (non-binomial), the reviewer, 

 " J. A. A.," in ' The Auk ' (vol. xxix. 1912, p. 124), wrote : 

 " If Penguinus was founded on an indeterminable species. 



