86 Mr. H. Stuart Dove on the 



III- — The Crested Penguin (Catarrh actes clirysocome Forster) 

 in Australian Waters. By H, Stuart Dove, M.R.A.O.U. 



Some four years ago. Dr. Brooke Nicholls, of Melbourne,. 

 Victoria, befriended a Crested Penguin which came ashore 

 wlien he was staying with a camping party at Lome, a 

 pleasant watering-place on the south coast of Victoria. 

 Some of the party were cray-fisliing when they noticed the 

 bird on some rocks at the water's edge ; after watching it 

 for some time, they returned to camp, and were surprised to 

 find that the newcomer had followed them for several hundred 

 yards, over rocks and sand. Placing him in a bag, they 

 carried him to oneof the houses where there was a large sea- 

 bath, and in this, " Billy " (as he was christened) lived on 

 and off for six weeks. During the first fortnight his plumage 

 underwent a complete moult, after which he looked very 

 handsome, the new crest being of a bright sulphur-yellow. 

 While moulting, he would not enter the water. He soon 

 became very tame, allowing the children to take him up and 

 carry him from place to place ; he would eat raw meat, but 

 was fed mostly on fish, sometimes the freshwater minnows, 

 sometimes sea-fish vvhicli were liberated in the bath and 

 captured by him after an exciting chase. 



Billy's fondness for fresh water was remarkable, his greatest 

 delight being to go with the bathers to the shower-bath ; 

 the greater the force of the shower, the better he liked it. 

 IVom time to time, he would stretch himself at full length 

 on the floor, shuffling and squawking with pleasure as the 

 water splashed upon him. Strange to say, when taken to 

 the sea, he refused to enter the water, but made ofi" home as 

 fast as his feet would carry him He usually walked one 

 foot after another but, when wishing to quicken his pace, 

 would hop along. At length, he was persuaded to go with 

 the bathers through the breakers, and once in deep water, 

 he continued swimming ocean wards until eventually lost to 

 sight. 



Last summer, a gentleman with his family staying on 

 another part of the south coast of Victoria, surprised a 



