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Antarctic Explorers. — The President expressed the 

 regret of the society at the death of Captain Scott and his 

 companions, and stated that he had represented the society 

 at the memorial service held in the Cathedral. He also ex- 

 pressed the sympathy of the society with Dr. Mawson on the 

 loss of two of his companions, their admiration of his suc- 

 cessful solitary journey of three weeks, and their hope that 

 his further compulsory year to be spent in the Antarctic would 

 be fruitful in scientific results. 



Exhibits. — The President exhibited the skin of a 

 crested penguin which had been sent to him from St. Francis 

 Island, off the west coast of South Australia, by Master 

 Francis Arnold. This species is shown in the South Aus- 

 tralian Museum under the name Catarrhactes pachyrhyncus. 

 There are two stuffed specimens, beautiful birds, presented 

 alive by Sir Samuel Way. In Campbell's ''Nests and Eggs 

 of Australian Birds" it is called Catarrhactes chrysocrome. 

 It is very seldom seen on the Australian coast. Its natural 

 habitat is in the islands south of, or just beyond the line of 

 icebergs, namely, Macquarie Island, Suarez Island, Patagonia, 

 Falkland Island, South Georgia Island, Tristan de Cunha, 

 and Gough Island, the Cape of Good Hope, Prince Edward 

 Island, the Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Island, and St. Paul's; 

 so that St. Paul's, far to the west, and Macquarie Island, far 

 to the south-east, are the nearest rookeries known ; and of 

 these Macquarie Island is the less distant. An occasional 

 wanderer has been taken at Hamelin Harbour, near Cape 

 Leeuwin, and at King Island, in Bass Strait, and on the 

 coast of Tasmania. They are popularly called rock hoppers, 

 because, instead of walking like the common little penguin, 

 they hop, as though their feet were tied together, from rock 

 to rock, just as a sparrow hops. The hen bird lays two eggs, 

 and the first Qgg is always much smaller than the other. It 

 is a very pretty bird, with its long golden-yellow feathers 

 arranged over each eye, and projecting behind the head in the 

 form of a crest. What induced this penguin to visit St. 

 Francis Island can only be conjectured; probably "circum- 

 stances over which it had no control"; but fortunately for 

 us they led to the undoing of the solitary wanderer, and 

 to the preservation of his skin for the Adelaide Museum. 

 Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited a nest of the tree swallow 

 (Petrochelidon nigricans), constructed in a glass sugar basin, 

 which stood on a mantelpiece in a house in Hamilton, near 

 Kapunda. A brood had been reared in the nest. Also a 

 hybrid duck shot by Mr. F. G. Ayres, of Narrung, South 

 Australia, a cross between Aythia australis and Nettium 

 gihherifroivs. Captain S. A. White exhibited four birds 



