88 On the Crested Penguin in Australian Waters. 



the base, extending somewhat on to body in front of wing ; 

 there is also a border of dark blue on the upper edge, but 

 not extending to the tip. Beak dark red ; feet reddish, 

 webbed, with strong nails. The tail is long for a Penguin, and 

 formed of stiff, narrow feathers. The crest is black, formed 

 of fine pointed feathers, the pale yellow appearing only 

 underneath, and beginning behind the eye. 



Total length 24' inches ; witig 6 ; tail 3 ; foot (on flat, with 

 tarsus) 4"5 ; beak 2 ; crest 3. 



It will be seeu that the throat in the Devonport specimen 

 differs considerably from that of the adult as described by 

 Buller ; a photograph of Dr. Nicholls' "Billy''' after the 

 moult shows a very black throat, that colour extending in a 

 straight line to the sides of the neck. The very small 

 amount of yellow in the crest of my bird is somewhat 

 puzzling in an individual so close to maturity as its size 

 denotes; it has occurred tome that this particular specimen 

 may not be C. chrysocome, but possibly a new form. The 

 thick, strong beak, which is its most noticeable feature, 

 agrees well with Hall's description of that feature in Catar- 

 rhactes: "Bill moderately long and very stout, the culmiuicorn 

 being divided from the latcricorn by a deep groove, which 

 is much swollen towards the base." G. M. Mathews, in his 

 ' List of the Birds of Australia,' 1913, includes Catarrhactes 

 with Eudyptes, thus considering C. chrysocome as identical 

 with E. pachyrhynchus ; according to Buller {' Manual of 

 Birds of N. Z.') all the adult measurements (except the 

 tarsus) of E . pachyrhynchus are greater than those of -E. chry- 

 socomus ( = C. chrysocome). A. J. Campbell, 'Nests and 

 Eggs of Australian Birds,' 1900, records that a Crested 

 Penguin (C chrysocome^ was captured at King Island, Bass' 

 Strait, iu 1887 ; he has also recorded the species for West 

 Australia (near Cape Leeuwiu). In connection with the 

 Devonport specimen, and that seen on the Victorian coast 

 last summer, Dr. Nicholls speculates in a recent Melb(jurne 

 ' Argus ' as to whether the close approach of Antarctic bergs 

 to our coasts may have brought these Penguins farther 

 north than usual. 



