NATATORES. 



351 



" Found breeding in great numbers on Macquarie's Island, in the 

 month of January, with the Crested Penguin {A. chrysocome), but in 

 separate communities. Lieutenant Eld, who procured the only speci- 

 men brought home by the Expedition, says that the nests were so 

 numerous as to cover many acres of ground, though placed close to- 

 gether, and that the old birds were not willing or able to get out of 

 the way, but would pick or bite the persons intruding. He thought 

 it quite sufficient, after selecting specimens, to secure them by tying 

 the legs of each one together, but in this he was disappointed, for in 

 passing through the surf (as the boats could not land), his prisoners, 

 all but one, escaped by swimming at a greater speed than their pur- 

 suers could follow them in the boats, though their legs were well 

 secured." 



2. EuDYPTES ANTIPODA [Homh. wulJacq.). 



Catarrliactes antipodes, HoMB. and Jacq. Ann. des Sci. Nat. XVI, p. 320 (1841), 

 Aptenodytes Jiavilarvata, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 260 (1848).* 



* " Subcrested ; a yellow band crosses from the corner of the mouth to the occiput, 

 which includes the eyes, and incloses the crown and front of the head in the form of a 

 mask; upper parts light blue-gray ; beneath white; bill and feet pale flesh-color ; tail 

 short, cuneate, and consisting of twenty feathers ; bill moderately strong, the commis- 

 sure nearly straight, but turning rather abruptly downwards at the corners of the mouth ; 

 upper mandible compressed towards the extremity and hooked, the edges much bent in- 

 wards and sharp; nostrils not perceptible in the dried skin; under mandible compressed, 

 slightly truncate; gonyx slightly rounded; eyes golden yellow; ophthalmic region 

 covered with short orange-oolored feathers ; crown and front yellow; the shaft of each 

 feather black, and elongated to a bristle-like appendage ; sides of the neck pale brown ; 

 back blue-gray, the feathers having dark brown shafts; wings the same color as the 

 back, somewhat darker, and margined on both edges by a white line ; pure white beneath ; 

 breast and belly pure white ; tail black, pointed, the shafts very flat and nearly as broad 

 as the webs; legs and bill light pink or flesh-color, the nails red. Males and females 

 alike in plumage, but diff"ering in size, the female being largest. 



"Male. Total length, twenty-eight and six-tenths inches; bill, one and nineteen- 

 twentieths inches; along the commissure, three inches; wing, along the front edge, 

 seven and nine-tenths inches ; foot, four and seven-tenths inches ; the fourth toe rudi- 

 mentary, the nail three-tenths of an inch ; long, slender, and curved; the next toe shorter 

 than the outer one. 



"Female. Total length, thirty-three and six-tenths inches; bill, two and three-tenths 

 inches ; along the commissure, three and three-tenths inches ; wing, along the front edge, 

 nine and two tenths inches; tail, two and four-tenths inches ; the outer feathers, one 

 inch." 



