Vol. XVII. 

 1918 



j NiCHOLLS, Study of Penguins on The Nobbies, Vic. 



125 



known as Little Penguins, the authorities having decided that all 

 our small Penguins belong to the same species." He states that, 

 granting all the birds belong to one species, they show amazing 

 variations. Of two picked up on beach at Torquay after the 

 autumnal gales, " the larger measured i6\ inches, the smaller 

 13I ; the beak of former was i;^- inches long and J inch deep at 

 base ; in the latter if inches long and less than | inch deep." 

 Generally speaking, the larger bird was almost twice the size of 

 the smaller, and was dull blue (unmottled) where the smaller 

 bird was a deep blue." It is hardly correct to say that a bird 

 measuring 16:^ inches is " almost twice the size " of one measuring 

 13*. 



Deductions from Tabulated List at End of Paper.* 



Measurements of adult specimens only. 



Table 3 {Cuhneti Measurements). 



270 

 av. 38.5 



14.4 



No. of 

 Skin 



12 

 16 



17 

 18 

 I I 



•■ 39 

 .. 38 



•• 39 

 .. _J6 



332 

 av. 36.9 



13 



12 



13 



12.3 



