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This fine Crested Penguin is occasionally met with on the shores of both North and South 

 Islands ; but it is by no means numerous ; and nothing is at present known of its breeding- 

 stations. 



A specimen caught in the castaway wreck of a brig near the Wellington heads, in 1856, 

 was brought to me in a moulting condition, and presented a very singular appearance — the 

 plumage peeling off as it were in large patches, and disclosing to view a short undergrowth of 

 new feathers : the whole process was completed in two or three days. 



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