IMURPIIV ; 
iM':n(',uins ()!' SOUTH oicokcha. 
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and there are very many of them at the sonlliwest point of tlie island. 1 asked him 
also to brill”' two tor me. When he returned from the triji I went on hcjard, hut he 
had found only four, and these went to Cajitain Larsen. 
Recentlx’, however, Mr. Correia has .sent me tlie skin of an adult 
female collected at Cape North, near the we.stern end of vSotith Oeor^ia, 
on h'ebriiary 2, 1915. Its measurements are as follows: 
Pill from 
gape 
Exp. 
culmeu 
Longe.st 
cre.st phime.s 
Wing from 
axilla 
Tail 
I'oot 
63 
56 
72 
176 
96 
1 1 2 
" I rides red.” 
Of the two other small sjtecies mentioned b_\- Weddell, the "jack- 
ass” peno'ttin is obviously Pyooscciis papiia. The “stone-cracker” is 
a.sstnned to have been Eudyptes chrysocomc, and is so listed in the British 
Mu.settm Catalogue , ]■). 636. Von den Steinen i^Ioc.dt), however, believes 
that Pygostelis antarctica is W^eddell’s stone-cracker, and if this be correct 
there is no valid record for Eudyptes chrysocome at South Georgia.* 
Sp/ieuiscus magellanicus is given in the Catalogue , p. 651, as the jack- 
a.ss penguin of Weddell, an interpretation which is certainly erroneous. 
vSouth Georgia, an es.sentiall}' Antarctic land, is far without the range of 
the continental, south temperate, even tropical, genus Sp/ieniscus. 
APPENDIX. 
Confu.sion and uncertainty have clouded few zoological subjects more 
thoroughlx' than the life-histor>' of penguins. Most of the early accounts 
of these birds were either utterly unreliable, because of the oI:).servers’ 
lack of abilit}' to inhibit their imaginations, or else .so strangely true as to 
.seem incredible to later, more critical generations. 
Since members of the recent Antarctic ex])edition.s have to a great 
extent worked out and ])opularized the marvelous .social cu.stoms, the 
growth and development, and the life in the .sea and on shore, of 
penguins, the time has pa.s.sed for tolerating in compilers of ornithological 
text-books an infinite re])etition of other people's errors. As examples of 
the many untruths and half-truths which occur in recent reference works 
of pretentious standards, I should like to refer to .several ot the more 
* Cf. noiiiiberg /. ]). 85. 
