BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND NOT FIGURED BY BULLER, 
Eggs. Clutch four, long ovals, slightly smaller at one end. They vary 
slightly hi size. Shell glossy and of very fine grain, very tliin and fragile. 
Dull white, with a very faint tinge of cream, closely spotted and dotted all over 
with very small violet markings, over which are evenly hut more thinly distri¬ 
buted larger markings of a purple-brown. The violet markings are sometimes 
a little tliicker at the larger end, giving a slight suggestion of a zone, and are 
very small and fairly constant as to size, not being larger than a pin’s head, 
while the purple-brown ones are irregular in shape and size, varying on some 
eggs from the size of a pin-point to twice or three times that size. Neither 
tint stands out prominently from the ground-colour. 
Measurements : 21 to 23 mm. by 15. (Average 20 by 15.) 
The eggs are laid daily, evidently in the morning, and incubation lasts 
twelve and a half days ; the young leave the nest about the fifteenth day. 
Breeding-season. October (usually), November and December. Young 
principally in November. 
Fregetta tropica australis Mathews. 
Nest. A small chamber at the end of a tiny burrow in the bare earth face in a slight incline, about 
eighteen inches long, in which is a good handful of fine dry grass (Stead). 
Egg. Clutch one, elliptic, blunt at both ends, white or with a faint pinkish tinge due to surface 
colour, with a broad band of maroon-red speckles round the larger end where it begins to 
narrow, and another has a second band roimd the middle of the egg ; 37 by 27 and 38.5 
by 27 mm. (Stead). 
These differ from the typical form which breeds at Kergullen Island. 
Eudyptes sclateri. BIG CRESTED PENGUIN. 
j Eudyptes pachyrhynchus vittatus Mathews, Ibis, Oct., 1935, p. 887. 
(Ante, p. 88.) 
Immature. Differs from the adult in the throat being ashy-white. Superciliary band white. 
Nestling. Covered with down ; head, throat and upper surface smoky-brown ; under-surface 
white. 
Nest. As there is no nesting material of any sort a hollow in the muddy ground serves as a resting 
place for the eggs. 
JSggs. Clutch two, pale bluish with a chalky film ; 83 to 87 mm. by 56 to 60. 
Breeding-season. September onwards. Young birds in their first plumage in April (Oliver). 
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