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Miller to paint this example. Miller's engraving was used to 

 illustrate the species. When he technically described his new 

 species, Forster gave as localities " Van Diemen's Land and the 

 Falkland Islands," and in his description included Bougain- 

 ville's account of Falkland Island specimens. Reference to 

 the British Museum (Natural History) Library, where George 

 Forster's drawings are preserved, showed that G. Forster had 

 only made a rough joencil sketch which only showed the 

 character of the crest. That is why J. R. Forster commissioned 

 J. F. Miller to make a painting of the London specimen from 

 the Falkland Islands. The pencil drawing of the Tasmanian 

 specimen shows it to belong to the species known as " pachy- 

 rhynchus," while the Falkland Island painting is of the 

 " chrysocome auct. ' style, while the description includes the 

 characteristics of a distinct Falkland Island species, known 

 as " chrysolophus." Under these circumstances we considered 

 it the wisest course to dismiss " chrysocome " Forster as too 

 much of a mixture to be safely used. Since then A. F. B. 

 Hull, in the Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. XII., No. 6, pp. 71-80, 

 pis. X. and xi., September 23, 1918, has discussed the same 

 item and has agreed " that Forster's Aptenodijtes chrysocome 

 is a composite, founded on a dried skin taken in Tasmania, 

 and another, bought in London, said to have been brought 

 from the Falkland Islands." He did not notice the com- 

 plication of " pachyrhynchus " and " chrysolophus,'' or he 

 might have agreed with our decision to dismiss the name 

 altogether. 



The new item we have to deal with is the independent 

 publication by J. F. Miller of the painting he made from the 

 Falkland Island specimen under the name Aptenodytes crestata, 

 giving the locality as Falkland Islands. This figure has always 

 been recognised as "chrysocome'' auct., so that we conclude 

 Miller's name would be available for that bird. We had used 

 the rather uncertain name serresianus, so that we are glad to 

 get a little certainty, and therefore advocate the usage, for the 

 smaller Crested Penguin, of Eudyptes cristatus Miller, the type 

 locality being definitely the Falkland Islands. The racial 

 names would then read : — 



