90 E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



a very large size. The measnrements of the largest of these yonngs indicate that 

 the actual length of body and neck is more than 85 percent of the same of the 

 adult female, but in consequence of the thick and woolly down they looked even 

 larger, Sörling says. The woolly coat is very well needed as it must be remem- 

 bered that these youngs had to stånd the severity of the antarctie winter with its 

 fierce storms, which make the coldness still more penetrating. 



The colour of the youngs is uniformly greyish brown. In the fall, in the middle 

 of Sept. Sörling saw two youngs, caught by the sailors in Fortuna Bay, a small 

 bay W. of Antarctie Bay. These youngs were somewhat redder than the others, 

 »almost chocolate brown», Sörling says, »and somewhat streaked with yellow». 



The only feathers that are developed in the preserved specimens are the tail- 

 feathers, which begin to appear through the downy coat already in a young measuring 

 about 40 cm. tot. 1., and have attained a length of 9 cm. in the largest of Sörling's 

 specimens. 



On the youngs seen in Sept., according to Sörling, the »flippers» began to be 

 free from down, but otherwise they were very woolly, still more so even than the 

 smaller ones. 



The eggs are singularly different in shape. Three of them may, however, be 

 termed pyriform with the small end more or less pointed. The fourth is much 

 more elongate, almost fusiform. The length of this egg is 117 mm. and its trans- 

 verse diameter is 71 mm. The most narrow-pointed of the pyriform eggs häs 

 the diameters 110 x 77, the others resp. 105 x 57, and 98 X 73 mm. The difference 

 in size is thus considerable, too. The shell is very coarse with a, partly quite rough 

 coat of calcareous matter. The eggs have a light greenish tint. 



Near the colony of King Pengnins in Antarctie Bay there was a larger colony 

 of about 200 papua-T 3 engnins, but both species kept for themselves without mixing 

 with the other species. 



von ben Steinen (12) tells that he tried to raise three young King-Pengnins. 

 They became very tame but finally died one after the other, because the food was 

 not suitable. 



