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and along the extreme south of America, reaching down to the 
South Shetlands, Louis Philippe Lands and Joinville Island, 64° S., 
is found a larger species, Chionis alba, with caruncles or wattles at 
the base of the bill, which the eastern species has not. The Sheath- 
bills lay two or three eggs in the crevices of the rocks, or under 
herbage ; the colour of tlese being creamy-white, blotched and streaked 
with purplish-brown and slate-colour. The bird feeds largely upon 
the eggs and nestlings of other birds, droppings and other refuse, as 
well as crustaceans, etc.* 
Lastly, there is a Cormorant of some kind which Webster, of 
TLM.S. Chanticleer, calls ‘the Blue-eyed Shag,’ found breeding at 
Deception Island, South Shetlands; McCormick records a resting- 
place of Cormorants on Cockburn Island; and the naturalists in 
the Dundee whalers seem to have met with some bird of this kind. 
At present there seems no clue to the species. 
APPENDIX TO BIRDS. 
APTENODYTES FORSTERI. Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 626. 
Emperor Penguin (p. 225). 
Upper parts bluish-grey ; head to throat black, with a yellow patch 
on each side of the head shading into white on the neck; under 
parts white. In the young bird the throat is nearly white, and 
there are little signs of yellow patches. Length up to 465 in. 
Aptenodytes patagonica. Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 627. King 
Penguin (p. 225). 
Aptenodytes longirostris of some authors, i.e. Moseley, Notes Nat. ‘Challenger.’ 
Upper parts generally as in the above, but shading into pearl- 
grey on back of the neck and shoulders; crown of head, cheeks and 
* The circumstantial account in the ‘Ibis,’ 1895, p. 165, of the shooting of this 
species in 78° 8. by ‘the late Dr. W. Gunn, R.N., Surgeon of H.M.S. Terror, in the 
Antarctic Expedition,’ must be due to an error of memory. In an official letter from 
the Admiralty it is stated ‘that the name of William Gunn does not appear in the pay- 
books of the Erebus or Terror for the period of the Antarctic Expedition, 1839-43, but 
that a Naval Surgeon of that name was serving in H.M.S, Curacoa and Crescent on the 
South American Station during that period.’ Dr. McCormick expressly states that no 
Sheathbill of any kind was seen from the time the Expedition left Kerguelen in 1840, 
until the 2nd-3rd April 1842, when approaching the Falklands; and the independent 
testimony of Ross is confirmative. 
