2q6 Alexander, Crested Penguins in Western Australia. [,^f''5||"ii 



apparently moulting, and has only tufts of yellow and black 

 feathers slightly more elongated than the rest over the eyes. The 

 measurements of the bills of the two specimens are practically 

 identical, and in both the top of the head is blacker than the 

 cheeks. They are therefore specimens of E. serresianus, according 

 to Mathews, or E. chrysocome of the British Museum Catalogue. 

 The size and shape of the bill at once distinguish them from E. 

 pachyrhynchiis of the Catalogue, but I am not clear whether this 

 is the species which Mathews calls pachyrhynchiis or whether his 

 pachyrhynchiis and serresianus are both included under the 

 chrysocome of the Catalogue. 



What are Australian Petrels ? 



By Gregory M. Mathews, F.R.S.E. 



A PECULIAR coincidence in connection with my paper on the 

 above subject has just been noted by me. 



In a journal not commonly available to Australians, namely 

 "Contributions to Ornithology," conducted by Sir W. Jardine, 

 there appeared, in 1850, " A Brief Account of the Researches in 

 Natural History of John Macgillivray," by John Gould. This was 

 an account given before the section dealing with Ornithology of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Mac- 

 gillivray, than whom no better field naturalist or collector has 

 visited Australia, wrote :— " I sent you . . . three lists show- 

 ing the daily occurence of Procellaridcs during our outward voy- 

 age — first, between Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 second, between the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius ; and 

 third, between the Mauritius and Van Diemen's Land." 



Gould commented: — "The following are the lists referred to, 

 and they are of great value, as showing the range of the species 

 enumerated therein ; and are peculiarly interesting to me, as 

 they tend to confirm the observations made by myself, during 

 my voyage to and from Australia, of which a full account has 

 been given in my work." 



I do not propose to reproduce the tables here, l)ut draw at- 

 tention to the following features : — 



In the first table occur Diomedea ciilminata, a few, and Procel- 

 laria conspicillata, numerous, which species are missing from the 

 second and third lists ; P. aeqiiinoctialis appearing in the second 

 but not in the third. 



In the third, however, appears Diomedea fiiliginosa, \'cry nu- 

 merous about the middle of the Great Bight, along with Procel- 

 laria glacialoidcs, also very numerous, and Daption right to the 

 southern coast of Tasmania. It is as well to note that Macgil- 

 livray's route reads as follows : — On loth June, 1847, latitude 

 39.03, longitude 110.47 : ^^ 23rd June, 1847, latitude 44.04, longi- 

 tude 145.22. While the above is not conclusive, it suggests ex- 



