1889.] SIR W. I.. Bt'LLER 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 me a 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 the same 

 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. 



Ic having thus become necessary to select a distinctive name for 

 this bird, I felt tliat 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 Eudyptes sclateri, in my ' Birds of 

 New Zealand' (2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 28y). 



In this species the superciliary streak of golden yellow, which, as 

 in Eudyptes pachjrhynchus, 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 ot 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. Ttie 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. Eudyptes pachyrhynchus. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terr., Birds, p. 1/ 



(1844). 



Chrysocoma pachyrhynchus, Bouap. C. R. xliii. p. 775 (1856). 

 Eudyptes pachyrhyncha. Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 98 (1871). 



