APTENODYTES LONGIROSTRIS. 



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withstanding its failure to exhibit in my presence when absolute identi- 

 fication was possible. 



Note 1. — The Cape Pigeon (Daption capensis) and Yellow-billed Alba- 

 tross {Diomedea culminata ?) have also been seen now and then near the 

 shore, but were not found breeding by our party. The former appeared 

 on the evening of December 8, near our camp; and I saw it again Jan- 

 uary 2, flying to sea from inland, near Prince of Wales Foreland. The 

 latter was common along the coast, and occasionally seen in Eoyal 

 Sound. 



ISTOTE 2. — Alcoholic specimens of an undetermined Puffinus are in the 

 collection, but have not been examined by Dr. Coues. 



APTENODYTES LONGIROSTPJS, Scop. 

 King Penguin. 



Patagonian Penguin, Pennant, Phil. Trans. Iviii, 1768, p. 91, pi. 5, in po,rt. 

 Aptenodytes patachonioa, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, 1788, p. 556, in part. 



Latham, Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, p. 878, in part. 

 Pinguinaria pataganica, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xi, 1797, pi. 409 (nee Forst.). 

 Apienodytes longirostris, Scopoli, Sonn. Voy. p. 180, pi. 113. 



Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1872, p. 193, pi. 5, tigs. 5-8 

 (osteology). 

 Aptenodytes pennantii, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844, 315, and of most subsequent authors. 

 Spheniscus pennantii, Schlegkl, M. P.-B. Uriu. 1866, 3; De Dier. p. 268, tig. — . 

 Aptenodytes rex, Bp., apud Gray. 



List of specimens, with measurements. 



— C. 



Is 

 .ii 



a 3 

 ia 



IB 



.a 



a 



a 

 a 



o 



P 



m 



S 

 1-1 



a 



12.50 



■3 



S 



M 







fcx; 

 § 



Eemarks. 





104 



230 

 231 



1874. 

 Nov. 26 



1875. 

 Jau. 4 

 Jan. 4 



d 



d 

 ? 



3fi.00 



45.50 

 39.50 



31.50 



35. 00 

 32.50 





2.75 





1.65 



3.15 



1.15 



Skin ; lost. 



Skin. 

 Do. 































The "wing "-measurement is the length of entire flipper. 



Bill pointed and narrow; upper mandible black; nostrils opening in 

 slits which extend nearly its whole length. Lower mandible black 

 anteriorly, flesh-colored over posterior half, as if covered with mucous 

 membrane. 



Iris bright-brown. 



Head black. Yellow collar from front of throat upward to behind eye, 

 narrow at side of neck, pyriform above. Throat black. 



