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bers in the vicinity of Louis Philippe Land and Joinville Island, about 
63° 36'S. and 54° W., at the end of December 1842, On January 2nd, 
1843, an example weighing 68 lbs. was obtained at Cockburn Island, 
and from a remark made by Dr. McCormick, Surgeon to the Erebus, 
it might be inferred that there was a ‘rookery’ of this species, as well 
as the undoubted one of the smaller and very plentiful Adélie Land 
Penguin, but Ross would not allow McCormick to land and explore. 
In 1892-3 the Dundee whalers, Balena and Active, as well as Capt. 
Larsen, of the Norwegian s.s. Jason, obtained specimens in that area, 
and the Belgian expedition in the Belgica brought back three examples 
from about 70° 8. and between 82° and 97° W., in the ice pack. 
So far, therefore, as present knowledge goes, the Emperor Penguin 
ranges longitudinally from 151° E. in Victoria Quadrant, through 
Ross Quadrant, and to about 50° W. in Weddell Quadrant. In the 
stomachs of examples obtained were the beaks of large cuttle-fish, 
schizopods, crustaceans, fish-bones and pebbles. Nothing definite is 
known of the breeding-place of the Emperor Penguin, but in the 
collection of Mr. J. H. Walter, of Drayton House, Norwich, there is 
an egg which is decidedly larger than the well-known egg of the 
King Penguin; it was purchased by his father about half-a-century 
ago, and has no further pedigree than ‘ Antarctic regions,’ and its 
appearance. Great pains have been taken to find any clue to a 
breeding-place, but unsuccessfully. 
The King Penguin (4. patagonica) has not been recorded within 
the Antarctic circle, but mention of it in this place seems expedient, 
because it is the only other member of the genus Aptenodytes, and 
has even been confused by some ornithologists with its larger relative 
noticed above. Weddell found the King Penguin breeding on South 
Georgia Island, and he describes the beauty of its plumage just after 
the moult, as well as the way in which the bird carries its single egg 
in a pouch situated between its legs and tail; while Pagenstecker and 
Steinen, in their accounts of the German Expedition in 1884-5, have 
given later and fuller details with illustrations of the young in down. 
The King Penguin visits Tierra del Fuego and the south-eastern 
portions of the Straits of Magellan, as well as the Falkland Islands, 
though it is no longer known to breed there; while eastward, Moseley 
found it incubating on Marion Island, it is plentiful in the Crozets, 
and it undoubtedly breeds on Kerguelen and Heard Islands. Moseley’s 
description of its habits on Marion Island, and Hazard’s photograph* 
taken on Kerguelen, fully confirm Weddell’s statement as to the 
manner in which the egg is carried. Still further east, the King 
* Auk, 1894, p. 280, pl. viii. 
