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White-cheeked Honey-eater {M . sericea). 

 Red Wattle-Bird {Autliochccra carunculata). 

 Brush Wattle-Bird lyAneUobia mellivora). 



Pipit [^.hit/nis (iiis/i'iilis). — Numerous, especially on Darby River flat; 

 Red-browed Finch {.ligintha temporalis).— Flocks in scrub along 

 coast. 



Satin Bower-Bird {Ptilonorhynchns holosericeus). — Introduced. 

 Crow i^CoiTHs coi'onoides). — Fairly numerous. 

 Grey Bell- Magpie {Strepera anaphonensis). 

 Collared Butcher-Bird {Cracticus destructor). 

 White-backed Magpie {Gymnorhina leuconoia). 



Crested Penguins in Western Australia. 



Bv W. B. Alexander, M.A., Keeper of Biology, W.A. Museum, 

 Perth, W.A- 



The first record of the voccurrencc of a Crested Penguin in Western 

 Australia was made by A. J. Campbell in 1889. He stated that 

 a specimen had been captured at Hamelin Harbour, near Cape 

 Leeuwin. Subsequently, in The Emu (vol. ix., p. 92, 1909), C. P. 

 Conigrave recorded the capture, on Rottnest Island, of a specimen, 

 now in the \\Vstern Australian Museum. 



Recently the Museum has received from Mr. A. Muir Ferrier 

 another specimen, which was captured on Middleton Beach, 

 Albany, by C. E. Muir, in 1896. 



It has been usual to refer all specimens of Crested Penguins 

 obtained in Australian seas to Eudyptes chrysocome, Forster, and 

 A. F. Basset Hull has recently published an interesting account 

 of the local history of this species [Records Australian Mus., xii.. 

 No. 6, Sept., 1918). Curiously enough, the president of the 

 R-.A.O.U. seems to have entirely -overlooked G. M. Mathews's " 

 remarks on these birds published in The Emu, vol. xvi., p. 184, 

 January, 1917. 



In that paper Mathews had indicated that two species had 

 been recorded from Australia under the name of chrysocome — 

 a larger, which he calls E. pachyrhynchus, Gray, and a smaller, 

 E. serresianus, Oustalet. The diflferences between these two 

 species are given, and it is stated that it is dililicult to attach the 

 existing records of Penguins in Australian waters. The majority 

 are beheved by Mathews to l)c referable to E. pachyrhynchus, 

 Gray, including the type of E. chrysocome, Forster, from Tasmania. 

 Since Forster's name was published in 1781 and Gray's in 1845, 

 it is difficult to understand how Gray's name can supersede 

 Forster's ; but Mathews states that the matter has been " fully 

 developed in The Ibis." A search through the pages of The Ibis 

 fails to reveal the article referred to. 



The two birds in this Museum are very different in appearance, 

 the Albany specimen having a beautiful double drooping crest 

 of black and straw-coloured feathers, whilst the Rottnest bird is 



