Order SPHEN18CIF0BME8 
No. 72. 
Family 8PHENI8CIDm. 
APTENODYTES PATAGONICA HALLI. 
KING PENGUIN. 
Aptenodytes PATAGONICA HALLI, subsp. H., Macquarie Island. 
Aptevodytes palxichonica Bennett, P.Z.S., p. 34 (1834). 
Aptenodytes 'pemmntii Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 315 (1844) {partim). 
Aptenodytes longirostris Cones, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., p. 193 (1872) {partim). ; Buller, 
B. New Zeal., 2nd Ed., II., p. 306 (1888). 
Aptenodytes patagonica Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXVI., p. 627 (1898) {partim ) ; 
Buller, Suppl. B. New Zeal., I., p. 78 (1905) ; Hall, Emu, IX., p. 250 (1910). 
Distribution. Tasmania (accidental) (Macquarie I., Snares I., Stewart I.), 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface bluish-grey, the feathers dusky at the base 
with black shaft-streaks and greyish-white spots more or less surrounded with black ; 
the shaft-streaks more pronounced on the upper tail-coverts ; the sides of the neck 
greyish -white ; head, sides of the face, throat, and a line on each side of the breast 
black, with a greenish gloss on the throat, a patch of orange on the hinder part of 
the head, which is continued in a narrow line and joined to the somewhat deeper- 
coloured orange of the fore-neck ; remainder of the under-surface creamy-white, 
becoming pure white on the lower-abdomen ; flippers dark grey above, under-surface 
white, margined and tipped with bluish-grey ; maxilla and tip of mandible black; 
base of mandible sealing-wax red, shading off into lead-grej’’ towards the 
tips; iris brown; feet black. Total length, 38 inches; culmen, 122 mm.; flij)per, 
280 ; middle toe and claw, 112. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but the colour on the bill not so pronounced. 
Nest. No nest is made, the egg being placed on the bare ground. 
Egg. Clutch, one ; ground-colour pale greenish-white, covered wholly or in part with a 
thin calcareous matter ; tapering suddenly from the diameter to the tip. Axis, 104 
to 108 ; diameter, 75 to 76. 
Breeding season. March (Hamilton). 
The first appearance of this bird on Australian shores was recorded by Mr. 
Robert Hall, in the Emu."^ It was killed in December of 1909, by some fisher- 
men on the ocean beach of Marie Island, on the east coast of Tasmania ; 
the New Zealand group being its nearest previous record to Australia. 
*Voi. IX., p. 250 (1910). 
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