454 G. E. Verrill — Some Birds and Eggs collected at 



Kidder is not to be entirely disregarded. My idea is, that the Qg^ 

 is carried tucked in between the thighs, among the thick feathers of 

 the lower abdomen and perhaps pressed in, so as to lie between folds 

 of the skin ; this, as the picture shows, is quite possible. 



Mr. Comer also says he has heard of a few penguins of a much 

 larger kind being seen on Heard's Island (Lat. 53° 10' S. ; Long. 73° 

 30' E.), possibly these may have been A. patachonica Forst. 



18. Pygoscelis tseniata (Peale) Coues. "Johnny Penguin." 



Aptenodytes jiapua Forst., Comm. Soc. Reg. Gotting., iii, 1781, p. 140, pi. 3, {nomen 



ineptum.) ; Stejueger, Stand. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 59. 

 A. tceniata Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp , 1848, p. 264. 

 JEudyjJtes pajma Cassin, Orn. U. S. Expl. Exp., 1858, p. 264. 

 Pygosceles wagleri Sclater, P. Z. S., 1860, p. 390, No. 46. 

 SpJieniscus papua Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. Urin., iii, 1866, p. 5. 

 Pygoscelis papua Hyatt, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xiv, 1871, p. 249. 

 P. tceniata Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 1872, p. 195; Kidder et Coues, 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 2, 1875, p. 41; iid., op. cit. No. 3, p. 18; Sharpe, 



Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 168, p. 154; Scl. et Salv., P. Z. S., 1878, p. 653; 



iid., Yoy. of Chal., Zool., vol. ii., 2nd Mem., p. 124. 



One skin from Kerguelen Island and one Qgg from South Georgia. 



Mr. Comer writes, "The Johnnies lay in rookeries on open grass 

 land and on side hills. The nests are built of grass and stone. I 

 am quite sure there is a mistake in regard to their laying but one 

 Qgg^ as I am positive they lay two, of which the first is the smaller, 

 but if these are taken they go to a new nest and will lay two more, 

 and if these were taken would lay others, but each set would be 

 smaller then those preceding. I can not say how many times they 

 will lay. Commence lajdng about the loth of September. These 

 penguins keep together by themselves. Top of feet yellow, bottom 

 black, yellow beak. Pupil of eye is dark with a light brown rim." 



This Qgg is a spherical ellipsoid in shape, measuring 2*V4X2'29, of 

 a very pale bluish color and smooth and shiny on the surface, showing 

 only very small pits and depressions under the lens. 



This egg was originally marked "Jackass Penguin," but Mr. 

 Comer wrote me afterwards that it was a mistake "as the penguins 

 were afterwards decided to be Johnny Penguins." He further says : 

 "The only place I have seen the real Jackass Penguins [S2?he?iiscus 

 anagellaniciis (Forst)] is at Cape Horn and there have dug them out 

 of burrows and from under rocks where the ground was soft enough 



* Kidder, Bull. Nat. Mus., No. 2, p. 43. 



