Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 
No. 44. 
Family SPHEN1SCIDM. 
EUDYPTES SCLATERI. 
BIG-CRESTED PENGUIN. 
(Plate 32.) 
Eudyptes sclatebi Buller, Birds New Zealand, 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 289, Dec. 1888: 
Auckland Islands. 
Eudyptes sclateri Buller, Birds New Zealand, 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 289, Dec. 1888 ; id., Proo. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, pi. ix., fig. 1 ; Iredale and Cayley, Emu, Vol. XXV., p. 5, 
pis. 1 and 2, July 1925 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 10, 1927. 
Catarrhactes sclateri Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 640, 1898, pref. 
Sept. 30th. 
Distribution. Auckland Islands. Australia (?). 
Adult. Feathers of the top of the head rather lengthened and of a deep glossy blue-black ; throat, 
sides of the face, back of the head and neck, deep glossy black with a slight purplish gloss ; 
mantle, back and rest of upper-parts deep slate-blue, each feather being pointed and 
glossy; a broad golden straw-coloured line of feathers commencing on the lores, passing 
over the eyes and continued in the form of a lateral crest about 70 mm. in length ; upper- 
surface of flipper like the back with two rows of feathers on the inner margin white ; under¬ 
surface of flipper white bordered on the outer margin and at the tip and base with blackish, 
lower throat and entire under-parts white. Total length about 700 mm.: flipper 215, tail 
115, tarsus 27, exposed culmen 60. Figured. Collected on Bounty Island in January, 1895. 
The sexes are alike. 
This bird has no doubt visited Australia at odd times. Nothing of its life 
history there has been recorded. 
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