Reply to Mr. G. M. Mathews. 307 



1908. Mathews, Handb. Birds Australia, p. 15; this species 

 appears as Catarrhactes chrysocome. 



1911. Mathews, Birds of Australia, i. p. 277, names it 



Peiuiuinus chrysocome chrysocome in the text and 

 Catarrhactes chrysocome on the plate (G5). 



1912. Mathews, Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 198. P. c. chrysocome is 



again used. 



April 1913. INIathews & Iredale, Ibis, p. 220, call the species 

 Eiidyptes chrysocome chrysocome. 



November 1913. Mathews, ' List of the Birds of Australia,' 

 p. 4, sul)stitutes Eudyptes pachyrhynchus Gray for 

 C. chrysocome, without offering any explanation. 



The type of C. chrysocome (Forster) came from Tasmania: 

 C. pachyrliynclius Gray is from South Island, New 

 Zealand, and the type is in the British Museum. The 

 differences between the two have been fully set forth in 

 my Catalogue, quoted above. 



Again, as regards English names. In 'The Ibis,' April 



1913. p. 220, the name " Big-crested Penguin " is applied to 

 a third species^ C. sclateri, while in the ' List of the Birds of 

 Australia ' it is referred to C. pachyrhynchus, as the author 

 has misnamed C. chrysocome from Tasmania ! Tiiere is 

 only one example of the Rock-hopper Penguin from the 

 Australian Seas in this country, so far as I am aware, and 

 that is one from Tasmania (the type locality of C. chrysocome 

 (Forst.)), sent by Prof. W. A. Haswell, of the Macleay 

 Museum, University of Sydney. Mr. Mathews wn-ites that 

 he intends to describe this typical specimen of C. chrysocome 

 as a new subspecies in a forthcoming paper, but on what 

 grounds it would be difficult to guess. 



p. 2. Gymnocorax senex. 



It is quite an open question whether Corvus tristis Lesson 

 & Garnot [Ferussac Bull. Sci. Nat. x. p. 291 (1827) ] has 



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