Order SPHENISGIFORMES. 
No. 43. 
Family SPHENISCID/E. 
PYGOSCELIS PAPUA. 
(T.ENIATA.) 
ROCK HOPPER. 
(Plate 31.) 
Pygosoelis Wagler, Isis, March 1832, heft, m., col. 281. Type (by monotypy) : Aptenodytes 
papua Forster. 
Aptenodytes PAPUA Forster, Comment. Gotting., Vol. III., p. 140, pi. 3, after May 15th, 1781: 
Falkland Islands. 
Pygosoelis papua Gray, “ Voy. Erebus and Terror,” pi. 25, 1845 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 631, 1898 (pref. Sept. 30th) ; Alexander, Emu, Vol. XXVI., p. 137, 
Oct. 1926. 
Aptenodytes tceniata Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped., Birds, p. 264, in or before Oct., 1848 : Macquarie 
Island. 
A Large Penguin, Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XXV., p. 212, Jan. 1926 : Tasmania (Eaglehawk Neck). 
Pygoscelis papua tceniata Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 10, 1927. 
The Strange Penguin, Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XXVII., pt. 2, p. 118, Oct. 17th, 1927 : Tasmania 
(Eaglehawk Neck). 
Distribution. Macquarie Island (breeding), Tasmania (casual). [The typical birds occur in 
Kerguelen, Heard and Marion Islands, Falkland Islands.] 
Adult. Entire upper-surface bluish; fore-head black; a white triangle above and behind the 
eyes, meeting and forming a band, narrowest on the back of the head; lores, chin, 
sides of the face and throat slate-grey; remainder of under-surface, silvery-white ; wings 
bluish with an edging of white on the edges, under-surface white with a bluish tip ; tail 
of sixteen feather ; eyes brown ; bill reddish, with the culmen black ; feet reddish. Total 
length 740 mm.: culmen exposed 50, from gape 80, wing 210, tarsus 25, tail 140. 
Collected on the 27th of May, 1909, by Capt. Davis in Lat. 54° 434' S. Long. 158° 54' E. 
Macquarie Island. 
The sexes are alike. 
The immature have the chin and throat mottled. 
Nest. A depression. 
Eggs. Clutch two, roundish oval, whitish. Usual shell, 68-71 by 57-61 mm. 
Breeding-season. October and November. 
This bird visited Tasmania in March, 1925, and was seen and reported on 
by Miss. J, A. Fletcher, who made a further comment in 1927. From these 
accounts it would seem that this is a frequent visitor to Tasmania. 
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