Birds. 153 



Watling says : "This species of Duck is found at Hawksbury ; 

 sometimes perching." 



No. 286. Hawksbury Duck, Lath. 



Watling writes : " Half the natural size. This is the only 

 Duck of this kind ever seen. May." 



No. 288. Semipalmated Duck, Lath., Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii., 

 p. 347, pi. cxxxix. 

 Anas semipalmata, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. lxix. 

 Anseranus semipalmata (Lath.), Salvad., Cat. B., xxvii., 

 p. 44. 



Watling says : " This bird is about the size of our native 

 Wild Goose. They are generally found in flocks and sometimes 

 perching upon high trees. It has been observed by the man 

 who sometimes shoots these birds that, in opening some of them, 

 but not all, the wind-pipe formed several beautiful circum- 

 volutions on the breast under the skin before it entered the 

 thorax. An officer lately has opened one and confirms the truth 

 of the sportsman's observations. It is called by us the New 

 South Wales Goose, Palmated, instead of being web-footed, 

 because its manner as well as taste and flavour resembles that 

 bird more than any other. The contour or general likeness is 

 here very well observed. I have been informed that at times 

 their note is tuneful and melodious, which appears probable from 

 the conformation of the wind-pipe, if that singular circumstance 

 is true. I have now a man out attending a pond where they 

 most frequent, in hopes of getting one for dissection. They have 

 only lately been observed and shot, principally on a pond near 

 the Hawksburgh River. January 2nd, 1794. Native name 

 Now-al-gang" 



No. 291. New Holland Penguin, Lath. [MS.], Gen. Hist., B., 

 x., p. 388. 

 Spheniscus novse hollandise, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., 



xiii., pt. i., p. 68. 

 Eudyptila minor (Forster), Grant, Cat. B., xxvi., p. 646. 



This drawing is the type of Latham's description of the New 

 Holland Penguin, on which Stephens founded the name Spheniscua 

 novae hollandise. Both of these names will now become synonyms 

 of Eudyptila minor (Forster). Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, when writing 

 the " Catalogue of Birds," was unable to identify the New 

 Holland Penguin from Latham's description. (Cf. Cat. B., xxvi., 

 p. 625, note.) Watling says: " Native name Gur-roo-mul. One- 

 fifth of the natural size ; the only one yet seen in Port Jackson." 



