Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 
No. 46. 
Family SPHEN1SGIDJE. 
EUDYPTES SCHLEGELI. 
ROYAL OR MACARONI PENGUIN. 
(Plate 33.) 
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsck, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 1875, Yol. VIII., p. 204, May 1876: 
Macquarie Island. 
Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., 1875, Vol. VIII., p. 204, May 1876 ; Mathews 
and Iredale, Manual Birds Austr., p. 12, March 9th, 1921; Iredale and Cayley, Emu, 
Vol. XXV., p. 6, July 1925 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 11, 1927. 
Catarrhactes schlegeli Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVT., p. 643, 1898, pref. 
Sept. 30th; Wilson, Nat. Antarct. Exped., Vol. II., Aves, p. 59, pi. XL, figs. 1 and 2, 
1907. 
Distribution. Campbell Island, Macquarie Island (breeding), New Zealand, Tasmania (casual). 
Adult male. General colour above dark glossy slate, each feather with a bluish-white middle; 
top of the head darker, feathers on the fore-head lengthened and forming a lateral crest, the 
longest (measuring 75 mm.) being of a golden-orange and the shorter plumes black with the 
terminal half golden-orange ; lores white tinged with golden-yellow ; cheeks, sides of the 
face and entire under-parts white ; iris red-brown ; bill red-orange ; legs and feet pink. 
Total length 777 mm.: exposed culmen 70, tail 100, flipper 193, tarsus 32. Figured. 
Collected on Macquarie Island on the 22nd November, 1901. 
The sexes are alike. 
Immature. Bather like the above, with plumes only indicated; throat and sides of the head greyish: 
November 22nd, 1901. 
Nest. A well-constructed circular wall of stones, edges raised and a good depression in the 
centre. 
Egg. Clutch one, pyriform in shape, with the usual chalky-white shell, 75-85 by 55-62'5 mm. 
Incubation-period. One month. 
Breeding-season. September, October and November. 
The following is taken front Dr. E. A. Wilson’s account as published in the 
National Antarctic Expedition, Natural History, Vol. II., 1907. 
This Penguin is a localised species and breeds only on Macquarie Island. 
The rookery that we examined on November 22nd, 1901, was situated on a 
shelving beach in Fisherman’s Cove, on the eastern side of the island, not 
far removed from the water’s edge. It was in a very much drier spot than 
that chosen by the neighbouring King Penguins, and considerably more 
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