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ORNITHOLOGY. 



Mus. Lev. Plate (not numbered) ; Penn. Gen. Plate XIV ; Forst. 

 Comm. Gott. Ill, Plate II. 



A single specimen in the collection is of the species which appears 

 to be that described by Forster, and to which Gray has given his 

 name. It is in good preservation, and presents nothing unusual in its 

 characters. 



Mr. Peale observes of this species : 



" Only one specimen of this bird was brought home. It was caught 

 on the ice, in latitude 66° 52' S., longitude 150° 25' E. of Greenwich, 

 on the 23d of January, 1840. Its stomach contained a quantity of 

 basaltic pebbles, which were the first indication of Antarctic lands, at 

 that time unknown." 



6. Genus EUDYPTES, Vkillot, Analyse, p. G7 (1816). 



1. EuDYPTES PAPUA {Forster). 



Aptcnodytes papua, FoRST. Comment. Gott. Ill, p. 140 (1781). 

 AptenoJytes taniata, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 264 (1848).* 



Comm. Gott. Ill, Plate III; Vieill. Gal. II, Plate CCXCIX ; Voy. 

 Erebus and Terror, Birds, Plate XXV. 



A specimen in the collection from Macquarie's Island, presents no 

 other characters than have been described, and are represented in the 

 figures cited above. It is in good plumage and preservation. 



Mr. Peale remarks in allusion to this bird : 



* "Above black, mottled with blue-graj ; beneath white; throat dark gray, a white 

 spot above and behind each eye ; bill slender, yellow ; feet yellowish flesh-color; tail 

 rather long, cuneate, composed of sixteen feathers, the four outer ones edged with white. 



" General aspect and size, that of the Long-tailed Penguin (^A. longicau<l(x), but the 

 tail is not so long, the wings longer, and the bill comparatively very long and slender; it 

 has much larger feet and more slender nails. 



"Total length, thirty-three and nine-tenths inches; bill, two inches; along the com- 

 missure, three and a half inches; gonyx, four-fifths of an inch; wings, ten and two- 

 tenths inches long, two and two-tenths inches wide ; tail, three and nine-tenths inches; 

 outer feathers, two and two-tenths inches ; foot, five and two-tenths inches ; middle nail, 

 eight tenths of an inch." 



