1889.] SIR W. L. BULLER ON A NEW PENGUIN. 83 
But.the bird to which I desire to call particular attention this 
evening is the Crested Penguin of the Auckland Islands, a species 
hitherto supposed to be the same as that inhabiting New Zealand, 
an example of which was lately living in the Society’s Gardens at 
Regent’s Park. 
In April last my attention was directed to this bird by Dr. Sclater, 
who sent mea note saying :—‘* The bird just received from the 
Auckland Islands seems quite distinct from the New Zealand 
species.” 
I at once repaired to the Gardens and made as close a survey as I 
could of this Penguin as it waddled about within its glass enclosure or 
swam in its artificial pool. When it, some time afterwards, died the 
skin was courteously forwarded to me by Mr. Bartlett, the Superin- 
tendent of the Gardens, for more critical examination. About thesame 
time I received from Sir James Hector a Penguin preserved in spirit 
(also from the Auckland Islands), which proved to belong to the same 
form; and on a careful comparison of these specimens with a good 
series of New-Zealand examples in my own collection, I came to 
the conclusion that the Auckland-Island bird was a new species, 
distinguishable from the former by its larger size, by the peculiar 
character of its superciliary streak, and by the different coloration of 
its flippers. 
It having thus become necessary to select a distinctive name for 
this bird, I felt that I could not do better than dedicate it to Dr. 
Sclater, who was the real discoverer of this species, and I accordingly 
described it, under the name of Hudyptes sclateri, in my ‘ Birds of 
New Zealand’ (2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 289). 
In this species the superciliary streak of golden yellow, which, as 
in Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, develops into a short erectile crest on 
each side of the head, instead of commencing in a line with the nos- 
trils, as in the latter species, springs from the base of the upper 
mandible immediately above the angle of the mouth. The posterior 
edge of the flippers, in its middle portion, has a border of white 
nearly *25 of an inch in width running off on both sides to a point, 
the under surface in its basal and apical portion, with a broad con- 
necting band along the anterior edge, being jet-black. The bill is 
uniform reddish brown, with a line of white along the base of the lower 
mandible, which is more conspicuous in the living bird than in the 
dried specimen, being somewhat concealed in the latter by the over- 
lapping feathers. The total length is 28 inches ; length of flipper 8 ; 
tail 3-5; bill, along the ridge 2°4, along the edge of lower mandible 
2°75; tarsus 1°25. 
The synonymy of these three species, according to my views, 
is as follows :— 
1, EupypTES PACHYRHYNCHUS. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 
Ludyptes pachyrhynchus, Gray, Voy. Kreb. & Terr., Birds, p. 17 
(1844). 
Chrysocoma pachyrhynchus, Bonap. C. KR. xiii. p. 775 (1856). 
Eudyptes pachyrhyncha, Gray, Hand-l. of B. ii. p. 98 (1871). 
