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Show 1874.] DR. O. FINSCH ON A NEW PENGUIN. 207 of the river Derwent in Tasmania, about thirteen miles below the head of the tideway. As this fish had arrived at comparative maturity, there was not the same difficulty in determining its species as was experienced in the case of the Salmonoids which have frequently been caught during the last five years in the lower waters of the Derwent; and the Tas-manian Salmon Commissioners, after careful investigation, had no hesitation in pronouncing it to be a true salmon. Well preserved in spirits, this specimen now graces the museum of the Royal Society of Tasmania at Hobart Town, and furnishes incontestable proof of the success of the greatest experiment in acclimatization that the world has yet seen ; for it is certain that this fish must have been bred in the colony, the last salmon smolt from an English ovum having left the ponds at the river Plenty on its seaward journey in the month of October 1868. 2. Description of a new Species of Penguin from New Zealand. By Dr. O. FINSCH, C.M.Z.S. [Received March 7th, 1874.] EUDYPTULA ALBOSIGNATA, n. Sp. All the upper surface, from the nostrils, along the temporal region and the sides of the neck, to the edge of the humerus, and along the sides of the body to the tibia, dark slate-coloured; the crown and middle of back darker, more slaty blackish ; the hind neck and sides of the body brighter, more slaty bluish ; all the feathers of the upper surface are slate-blue along the shaft, which is black; the loral region, sides of head, temporal region, and the upper half of the sides of neck are covered by a broad smoky-grey longitudinal stripe, which changes gradually into the dark colour of the upper parts, and on the lower parts also into the white which covers the whole under surface ; upper surface of wing slate-black, but bordered anteriorly and posteriorly broadly with white, leaving thus only a dark median stripe ; under surface of wing uniform white; tail-feathers white, with brownish shafts, and covered by a white patch, which is formed by the longest upper tail-coverts. * Bill horn-black, the lower mandible reddish transparent; feet reddish brown ; nails blackish. Long. alse rostri Alt. Long. dig. tot. tot. cubitus, manus. a fronte. arictu. rostr. tars. med. ung. c. 15" 5" 2'" 1" 7'" 2" 5'" 1" 1£'" 2"V" &" 11'" 1" 4$"' 6"'(poll. Angl.). Two specimens of this species (male and female, which are alike) were forwarded to m e through the kindness of Dr. Haast under the name Eud. minor. They had been captured near Akaroa on the South Island in September. This species is easily distinguishable from Eud. minor, Gm. ( = E. undina, Gould), by the broad white edge which borders the wing anteriorly and posteriorly, and by the white patch on the upper |