210 Transactions. — Zoology. 



EuDYPTES ANTiPODUM, Ilomh. and J acq. — Yellow-crowned Penguin. 



Tlie siDccimen mentioned at page 34G of tlie Birds of New Zealand, as being 

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

 Canterbury Museum. On examining it more closely, and comj)aring 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 value. The colours of the plumage are those of E. antqiodurriy 

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

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

 claws, the bird is an adult. The coraj^arative measurements are as follows : — 



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



Total length 



32 : 



inches 



2 6 "5 inches 



Length of flippers ... 



7-5 





7-25 „ 



Tail 



3 





1-5 



Bill, along the ridge 



2-5 





2 



Bill, along edge of lower mandible 



3 





2-75 „ 



Tarsus 



1-5 





1 



Middle toe and claw 



3-5 





3 



EuDYPTULA UNDiNA, Gould. — Little Penguin. 



The young is covered with sooty-brown down, inclining to grey on the 

 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. 



EuDYPTULA MINOR, GmcUn. — 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 inquiry here I find that it differed in no resjoect from other examples 

 of the true E. minor in the Canterbury Museum. As Dr. Finsch had hitherto 

 refused to recognize more than one species of Eudyptula in New Zealand, I 

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

 in reality our smaller form, Eudyptula U7idina, and not E. minor. 



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 arc yellowish white ; whiskers black, and the rest of the plumage 

 as in ordinary specimens. 



* Eudyptida alboniynala, Fiiisch, P.Z.S., 1874. 



