1871.] 247 [Hyatt. 



Aptenodytes chrysocoma, which is a crested species, and therefore 

 referable to the genus Eudyptes, makes it necessary to select the next 

 species, Aptenodytes patagonica, as Forster's type of the genus. 



Forster's descriptions, though they did not recognize either of Bris- 

 son's divisions, and ignored both of his names, added greatly to the 

 previous knowledge of the species and made the first mention of the 

 crested birds as a group, contrasting them with the Alophae or non- 

 crested group. 



Pinguinaria of Shaw is evidently identical with Aptenodytes of 

 Forster, as may be seen from the figure of the type in Nat. Miscel- 

 lany, vol. 11, pi. 409, Dec. 1799. 



Aptenodytes. 



Aptenodytes Pennantii Gray. 



Aptenodytes Pennantii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844, vol. xiii, p. 

 315. Patagonian Penguin, Pennant, Trans. Phil. Soc; vol. 58, p. 91, 

 pi. 5, nee Forst. 



Pinguinaria patachonica Shaw, Nat. Miscellany, 1799, pi. 409. 



The distinctive characteristics of this species as defined by Gray 

 appear to be sufficiently well marked in the single specimen which 

 is in the collection. Comparison with a specimen in the Museum of 

 Peabody Academy at Salem shows, however, that considerable varia- 

 tion must be expected in the coloration. The patches on the sides of 

 the head in our specimen are of a decided orange ; they are also quite 

 narrow above; the orange on the throat very broad and quickly fad- 

 ing into lemon color, the greenish tips of the dark feathers of the 

 throat and forehead hardly perceptible. In the Salem specimen the 

 patches are very broad above, and bright lemon color fading into or- 

 ange, the orange on the throat fading very gradually into lemon and 

 this zone, partly, but not wholly, owing to bad stuffing, is long and nar- 

 row ; greenish feather tips distinctly marked on the throat and fore- 

 head. The Museum possesses no specimen of the Emperor Penguin, 

 Aptenodytes patagonica Forst., so that no comparison could be made. 

 The wings are quite dark underneath, the white occupying the larger 

 part of the centre only. About three scutella on each toe. 



One adult, Str. Magellan, Coll. La Fresnaye. 



Spheniscus. 



Spheniscus minor Temm. 



Spheniscus minor Temm., Man. Orn., 2d Ed., 1820, 1, p. 113. 



