452 6r. E. Verrill — Some £irds and JEggs collected at 



there are fewer of the dark brown spots, and the egg is not so pointed 

 though about the same size as ours; still the eggs of birds of this 

 genus vary in the same species more than the difference shown between 

 his figure and our Qgg, and, on the other hand, eggs of two different 

 species sometimes vary less. I am not so familiar with the Q,gg of 

 S. hirundinacea^ as to be able to decide which ours really is, 

 though if it is vittata it would be of interest, as showing, I believe, a 

 m.uch further western distribution than has been before recorded. 

 The egg mentioned above measures 1*81 X 1*25. It is regularly 

 ovate and rather sharply pointed at the small end. The texture is 

 even, and very finely granular under the lens. The color is grayish 

 olive, spotted, rather thicker about the large end, with very dark 

 (almost black) brown, which shows as a slaty gray when slightly 

 beneath the surface. 



16. Anous stolidus (Liun.). Noddy. " Mackerel Gull." 



Sterna stolida Linn., S. N., ed. 10, I., 1758, p. 137. 



Anous stolidus Gray, List. Gen. Birds, 1841, p. 100; Saunders, P. Z. S,, 1876, p.. 

 669 et 1877, p. 797 ; id., Voy. of Chal, p. 137. 



One skin from Gough Island. 



"Another kind [of "mackerel gulls"] are dark, almost black, with 

 the top of the head white. They are a little larger [than the last]. 

 These are the only ones of this kind I have ever seen. Quite a num- 

 ber here. Afterwards saw some at Tristan da Cunha." [Geo. Comer, 

 Notes at Gough Island.] 



Order, IMPENNES. 

 Family, Spheniscid^. 



17. Aptenodytes longirostris Scop. "King Penguin." 



Apterodyta longirostris Scopoli, Del. Fauna et Flora Ins., vol. ii, p. 91, N"o. 69. 



Aptenodytes pennantii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, 1844, p. 315; Scl., P. Z. S., 

 1860, p. 390; Hyatt, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiv, 1871, p. 247. 



Aptenodytes longirostris Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbil., 1872, p. 193; Kidder 

 and Cones, Bull. Nat. Mus., No. 2, p. 39; iid., op. cit., No. 3, p. 18; Sharpe, Philos. 

 Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, p. 152; Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S , 1878, p. 653; iid., 

 Yoy. of Chal., Zo61.,vol. li, p. 122. 



One skin from Kerguelen Land. 



The specimen obtained by Mr. Comer is in beautiful plumage and 

 differs from two mounted specimens from Kerguelen, already in this 

 museum, in being much lighter and bluer on the neck, sides of the 

 body, and flippers. 



