Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 
Family SPHENISCIDuE. 
No. 104. 
EUDYPTULA ALBOSIGNATA. 
WHITE-FLIPPERED PENGUIN. 
(Plate 76.) 
Eudyptula albosignata Einsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.Lond., 1874, p. 207, August 1st: Akaroa, South 
Island, New Zealand. 
Eudyptula albosignata Einsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 207, August 1st; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 648, 1898 (pref. Sept. 30th) ; Mathews, Syst. Av. 
Austral, p. 12, June 13th, 1927. Oliver, New Zeal. Birds, p. 84, 1930. 
Eudy'ptula minor Buller, Birds New r Zealand, 2nd edn., Vol. II., p. 300, 1888 ; id., Suppl., Vol. I., 
p. 96, 1905 (Partim). 
Eudyptula minor albosignata Mathews and Iredale, Ibis, 1913, p. 222. 
Distribution. South Island, New Zealand (breeding Banks Peninsula). 
Adult male. Eore-head, crown and entire under-parts silvery-blue, each feather with a black 
shaft-streak ; tail-feathers white ; flippers dark bluish-slate, broadly margined on both 
the inner and outer margins with white, under-surface of flippers wliite ; entire under¬ 
surface of the body silvery-white. Eyes whitish; feet whitish; bill horn-colour. 
Total length about 460 mm. : culmen 41, flippers 134, tail 33, tarsus 27. 
Adult female . Similar to the adult male, but colour brighter and bill weaker. 
The adult differs from E. minor in being larger with the upper surface lighter coloured, and 
the edge of the flipper is white. 
Nestling. Covered with blackish-grey down. 
Nest. Under a ledge, or in holes amongst the rocks ; sometimes in a burrow. 
Eggs. Clutch two, dull white, with a smooth surface. 54 to 57 mm. by 41 to 44. Indistinguishable 
from those of E. minor , but are a little larger. 
Breeding-season. October and November [to January ?]. 
(This is perhaps a sub-species of E. minor.) 
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