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Bay. ' He details tlie natural features, signs of natives, trees, plants and 

 animals, and proceeds: — "The land l)ir(ls we saw, are a bird like the 

 raven ; some of the crow kind, black, with the tips of tlie feathei'S of the 

 tail and wings white, theii- bill long and very sharp; some parroquets ; 

 and several kinds of small birds. The sea-fowl are ducks, teal and the 

 sheldrake. 1 forgot to mention a large white bird, that one of the gentle- 

 men shot, about the size of a large kite of the eagle kind." No mention 

 is made of the capture of the Crested Penguin. In his "Voyage"-" 

 also, Forster does not mention receiving the skin from Furneaux, although 

 he relates in detail the separation of the two shi[)s (Forstei- was on the 

 Resolution), the reunion in Queen Charlotte Sound, and Furneaux' account 

 of his doings in the interim. 



1. — The type of Eadyptea chnjsocome, Forster, in relation to Australia 

 was described from the dried skin of a bird captured in 1773, in Adventure 

 Bay, Tasmania, where the species was, even at that time, of rare occurrence. 



2. — The true habitat of the species is limited to the subantarctic 

 islands — Kergueleu, Macquarie, Antipodes, Snares, and Campbell Islands, 

 where it breeds in colonies. 



3. — Between breeding seasons it ranges over the seas washing the 

 southern coasts of Australia and New Zealand. 



4. — Individuals occasionally land on the Tasmauian and Australian 

 coasts, but they never breed, and have never bred on tjiese coasts. 



5. — The range of the species is gradually extending northwaid, but 

 whether this is part of a general northward migration of Antarctic species, 

 there is not sufficient evidence available to show. It may be pointed out 

 in this connection that the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor, Forster) 

 has, within the last twenty years, extended its breeding range from 

 Montague Island, one hundred and fifty miles south of Port Jackson, to 

 Port Stephens, ninety miles north of that harbour. 



Bihliograplnj. 



Campbell, Archibald John — List of Birds identified by the Field 

 Naturalists' Club of Victoria, during its expedition to King Island, 

 November, 1887 (Victorian, Naturalist, iv., 1887-8, p. 138). 



List oi West Australian Birds, showing their Geographical 



Distribution throughout Australia, including Tasmania. (Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Edin., xvii., 1889-90, p. 304). 



Nests and Fggs of Australian Birds . . . Sheffield, 1901. 



CoMGKAVE, C. P. — [Note on Calarrhactes rtirysoconte~\ (Emn, ix., 1909, p. 92). 



CouK, James — A Vo3age towards the South Pole and Round the World, 

 performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure in 

 the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. London, 1779. 



Dove, H. Stuart— The Crested Penguin (Cutarrhactes chrysoconie, Forster) 

 in Australian Waters (Ibis (10), iii., 1915, p. 87). 



•*- Forster (G.) — A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop 

 Resolution, etc., 1778. 



