2 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
seen no more. The Crested Penguin does not breed 
nearer to our shores than Macquarie Island, far 
south of Tasmania, so that the wonder is not that 
its visits to us are so few, but that a bird which has 
to rely entirely on swimming should ever make so 
long a journey. A specimen in the National Museum, 
Melbourne, was obtained at Cape Otway. 
FAIRY PENGUIN 
Eudyptula minor undina 
With the Fairy Penguin I include the birds till 
recently known as Little Penguins, the authorities 
having decided that all our small Penguins belong 
to the same species. Quite one of our commonest 
sea-birds, it is to be found in Corfo Bay, as well as 
on the Straits beaches. On certain windless evenings 
of autumn and early winter, when the bay at sunset 
is like a sheet of turquoise glass, darkening to indigo 
as the light fades from the west, you may hear from 
the shore a faint barking noise that seems to come 
from far out on the water. Direct your attention 
more closely, and you may perhaps see a small dark 
object, a mere point on the surface which presently 
disappears to emerge again farther away. That is 
the head of a Penguin, coming up to breathe and 
call to his mates. I knew a bank official who used to 
go out in a boat and practise at these birds with the 
office revolver — Dabchicks, I think he called them. 
But he never shot any ; they possess an almost uncanny 
