Obbek IMPENNES.] 
[Eam. SPHENISCID^. 
APTENODYTES LONGIEOSTEIS. 
(KING PENGUIN.) 
Patagonian Penguin, Penn. Pliil. Trans. Iviii. p. 91, pi. 9 (1768). 
Le Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinee, Sonn. Voy. N. Guin. p. 180, pi. 113 (1776). 
Ajjferodita longirostris, Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. ii. p. 91, no. 69 (1786). 
Aptenodytes patachonica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 556 (1788). 
Pinguinaria patachonica, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xi. pi. 409 (1800). 
Aptenodytes pennantii. Gray, Ann. N. FI. 1844, p. 315. 
Spheniscus pennantii, Schl. Mus. P.-B. JJrinatofes, p. 3 (1867). 
Aptenodytes longirostris, Coues, Pr. Phil. Acad. 1872, p. 193 *. 
Ad. pileo guMque et facie lateral! nigris : collo postico tergoque pallide cyanescentihus, dorso et uro]3ygio saturati- 
oribus : plagd lata auvantiacd a regione parotica posticd per latcra colli angustante, et gulam nigram 
marginante : colli lateribus cyanescentihus, auticc late nigro marginatis ; jugulo medio aurantiaco : corpore 
rcliquo subttis omniuo seidceo-albus, pectoris lateribus dorso concoloribus : alis cinereis, remigibus 
seriatim cinereo terminatis, margine alaii summo nigricante: caudi nigra: rostro nigro, mandibulis rubes- 
centi-flavis, versus apicem nigricaiitibus : pedibus nigris. 
Adult male. Crown, sides of the bead, and throat jet-black; spatulatc spot on each side of hind head, line down 
the sides, and the upper part of fore neck deep golden yellow, fading gradually away on the lower part of 
fore neck ; hind neck and general upper surface pale blue, deepeniug on the back and rump, each feather 
with a dark centre ; underparts yellowish white. Prom the crown a narrow fringe of black separates the 
yellow already described from the blue of the nape, and, continuing downwards as far as the wings, spreads 
outwards till it is an inch in extent. Irides brown; bill black, the flattened sides of the lower mandible (up 
to within an inch and a half of its extremity) reddish yellow; feet and claw's black. Total length 36 inches ; 
length of flipper 11 ; tail 3'5 ; bill, along the ridge 3-5, along the edge of lower mandible 4 ; tarsus 2 ; middle 
toe and claw 4. 
Nestling. Covered with very dense fine down of a uniform yellowish-brown or dark buff colour in some, while 
in others it is many shades darker, or dull blackish brown. There is no difference in the appearance of the 
sexes at this stage. 
Obs. There is a specimen (from Macquarie Island) in the Otago Museum in which the colour on the fore neck 
is a vivid canary-yellow, fading off doAvnwards towards the breast ; the head and throat glossy black, so also 
is the line along the sides dividing the two colours ; the plumage of the back is a pale silvery blue ; bill 
black, sides of lower mandible bright yellowish brown; feet black ; irides represented as bright yellow. 
The specinaen of this noble Penguin in rny collection from which my description is taken was obtained 
on Stewart’s Island, where this bird is extremely rare. 
* “ Er. Coues, in his ‘ Monograph ’ of the Sjpheniscidce, revives Seopoli’s name for this species ; and in this I think he is 
justified, for, laying aside Grmelin’s title of pataelmiica, which confuses two species, the Apte.njodita of Scopoli (1. c.) seems to be 
the next in order of priority. It is founded on ‘ Le Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinee ’ of Sonnerat (Voy. N. G. p. 180, pi. 113), 
and although the figure in this plate is very had, representing the black on the throat as extending far down to the centre of the 
breast, the description quite agrees.” (Sharpe, App. Toy. Ereb. and Terr, birds, p. 38.) 
Cf, also Sclater, Ibis, 1888, p. 326. 
