210 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Eudyptes antipodum, Eomb. and J acq. — Yellow-crowned Penguin. 



The specimen mentioned at page 346 of the Birds of New Zealand, as being 

 in the Otago Museum, has found its way by exchange into the collection of the 

 Canterbury Museum. On examining it more closely, and comparing its 

 proportions with those given in my work (from a British Museum example), I 

 observe a remarkable difference in the size, which may possibly prove of 

 specific yalue. The colours of the plumage are those of E. antipodum, 

 although somewhat duller ; but the lengthening of the coronal feathers is 



scarcely perceptible. Judging from the worn and blunted condition of the 



claws, the bird is an adult. The comparative measurements are as follows : 



Brit. Mus. Spec. Cant. Mus. Spec. 



Total length ... ... 32 inches 26*5 inches 



Length of flippers ... ... 7-5 „ 7-25 



« 



Tail 



• t • 



3 ,, 1*5 ,, 



Bill, along the ridge ... 2-5 „ 2 



Bill, along edge of lower mandible 3 „ 2*75 



?? 



5? 



Tarsus 



• ••* • • * . - • 



15 „ 1 



Middle toe and claw ... 3 5 „ 3 „ 



Eudypttjla. undixa, Gould. — Little Penguin. 



grey 



throat and foreneck, whitish on the breast and abdomen. As the bird gets 

 older the down on the upper parts becomes lighter ; and it ultimately comes 

 off in patches, exposing tracts of young feathers, growing very close together 

 and assuming from the first the colours of the adult. 



Eubyptula minor, Gmelin. — Blue Penguin. 



In a communication to the Zoological Society some time since, Dr. Finsch 

 described* what he took to be a new species of penguin from New Zealand, 

 resembling Eudyptula minor in plumage, but somewhat larger in all its 

 proportions. The specimen in question was forwarded to him by Dr. Haast, 



and On inouirv herfi T find thai, it. fliflfprp.rl in nn nAstiOAf. frnrvi nfliov flvomnlfto 



Museum. As Dr. Finsch had hitherto 



recognize 



conclude that the bird with which he compared his supposed new species was 



form 



Apteryx australis, Shaw.— South Island Kiwi. 



In the Canterbury Museum there is a partial albino, in which the crown 

 and sides of the head, the throat, the whole of the foreneck and the front of 

 the thighs are yellowish white ; whiskers black, and the rest of the plumage 

 as in ordinary specimens. 



Eudyptula albosignata, Finsch, P.Z.S., 1874. 



