Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 
No. 40. 
Family SPHENISC1DM. 
APTENODYTES PATAGONICA. 
(HALLI.) 
KING PENGUIN. 
(Plate 30.) 
Aptenodytes Miller, Var. Subj. Nat. Hist., 1778, pt. iv., pi. 23. Type (by monotypy): 
Aptenodytes patagonica Miller. 
Apterodita Scopoli, Del. Elor. et Faun. Insub., Vol. II., pt. rr., p. 91, 1786: new name for 
Aptenodytes. 
Pinguinaria Shaw, Mus. Lever., Vol. I., pt. in., p. 144 (pi. dated July 2nd), Nov. 22nd, 
1792 : new name for Aptenodytes. 
Aptenodytes patagonica Miller, Var. Subj. Nat. Hist., 1778, pt. iv., pi. 23: Falkland 
Islands (fig., “ Voy. Erebus and Terror,” pi. 32). 
Aptenodytes patagonica halli Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 272, Oct. 31st, 1911: Macquarie 
Island. 
Aptenodytes patagonica Ewing, Tasm. Joum. Nat. Sci., Vol. I., pt. i., 1841: Tasmania ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus,, Vol. XXVI., p. 627, 1898 (pref. Sept. 30th); 
Wilson, Nat. Antarct. Exped., Vol. II., Aves, p. 32, pi. vm„ 1907 ; Mathews and 
Iredale, Manual Birds, p. 13, pi. i., March 9th, 1921; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., 
p. 9, 1927. 
Aptenodytes patagonica halli Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 272, Oct. 31st, 1911; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 3, Dec. 1913 ; id., Syst. Av. Australas, p. 9, 1927. 
Distribution. Macquarie Island (breeding), New Zealand and Antarctic Seas, Tasmania 
(casual). 
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 fine and joined to the somewhat deeper-coloured orange 
of the fore-neck; remainder of the upper-surface creamy-white, becoming pure white 
on the lower abdomen; flippers dark grey above, under-surface white, margined and 
tipped with bluish-grey. Upper mandible and tip of lower black, base of lower mandible 
sealing-wax red, shading into lead-grey towards the tip ; eyes brown, with dark radial 
streaks; feet and claws black. The pupil at all ages is quadrilateral or diamond-shaped 
when contracted, and becomes circular when dilated to its full extent. Total length 
966 mm.: culmen 122, flipper 280, middle toe and claw 112. 
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