7z RECORDS OF THK AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



that pari of tlie woi'ld than in many others, for althongli it is occasionally 

 found on the shores of 'Van Diemen's Land and the south coast of 

 Austi-alia, its great strongholds are the islands of Amstei'dam, St. Paul's, 

 and Ti'istan d'Acunha. As I had no opportunity of seeing the bird in a 

 state of nature, I cannot perhaps do lietter than transcribe the account 

 given by Latham, who states that 'it is called Hopping Penguin . . .' " 



In 1887, the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria organised an expedi- 

 tion to King Island, Bass Strait. In a list of the birds identified by 

 Members of the ('lull, Cam]>heir- notes CatKrractes clirysncnvie, Latham, 

 a skin having been obtained. In his "Nests and Eggs"-' Campbell 

 states that this Crested Penguin was captured alive among the rocks on 

 King Island. 



In a tabulated list of the bii'ds of "Western Australia^ Campbell in- 

 cludes Cntarracles fhrysncome amongst "fifteen species of birds now recorded 

 for the first time as West Austi-alian." This species is noted "near Hamelin 

 Harbour (Tomb)." Mr. C'ampbell informs nie that he did not see the 

 specimen, but recoi'ded it on the authority of Mi". Hugh Tomb, the man- 

 ager of a timbei' station — the Karri Timber Company (Davies) near 

 Hamelin Harboui-, and frcnn what he can recollect of the information given 

 him by Mi'. Tomb, tlie bird was secured alive. Campbell's tabulated list 

 shows the extra- West Australian range of the birds named, and ('. clinjuo- 

 coDip is noted as found in the Northern Territory, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, South Australia antl Tasmania. Ramsay's tabulated list^ 

 gives the range of U. chri/aocoiiie as Gulf of Carpentaria, Now South Wales, 

 Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. 



Under date 2nd August, 11)09, Mr. C. P. Conigrave'' states that an 

 interesting find recently made on Rottnest Island, twelve miles north-west 

 of Fremantle, Western Austi'alia, was a specimen of the Crested Penguin 

 (Cafarracles rhrysocome) which was picked up by Mr. Millei" of the Rott- 

 nest Signal Station. Mr. Otto Lippeit, the taxidermist of the Western 

 Australian Museum, happened to be collecting on the Island, and he at 

 once prepared the skin. 



In February, 1910, a specimen of the Crested Penguin made its 

 appearance on the beach at Ijorne, on the south coast of Victoria.' 

 When first seen by the members of a cray-tishing party it was on 

 the rocks at the water's edge, but it followed them over some hundreds of 

 yards of rocks and sand. They placed it in a bag and carried it to their 

 ]-esidence, where it was domiciled in a large sea-bath, about twenty yards 

 square, where it lived for six weeks. Dui-ing the first fortnight it was 

 very savage and spent most of its time in the dark recesses of a bathing 

 box, where it underwent a complete moult. The moult finished at the 

 head, and some of the discarded crest feathers measured as much as four inches 



- Caiiip)>ell- last of Birds idoiitified by the Field Naturalists' Ohib of Viftoria, 

 King Island, 1887 (Vict. Not., iv., 1887-8, p". 138). 



■■ Cauipliell— Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, 1901. 



•' Canip])ell— List of "West .Vustralian Mirds (Pro,-. li. Soc. FAlinl... xvii.. 1889-90, 

 p. 320). 



■'' Ramsay— Tabular List of Austral i;ui i'>irds, 1888. 



'' T'onigrave— Bidii, ix., 1909, p. 9- 



' Nicliolls — Notes on the Crested reiii;Hiu ( (',ttnr,]uicti's ••hnisocohtej (Emu, x., 

 191U, p. 11). 



