THE 
BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT 
OF GEELONG, AUSTRALIA 
CRESTED PENGUIN 
Eudyptes pachyrhynchus 
So very rare a visitor is it to our ocean-beaches that 
the most devoted lover of birds and the sea may 
count himself favoured if he has seen a Crested Penguin 
in the flesh. There is no possibility of mistaking the 
bird if one does come upon it ; for the only other 
Penguin we have has no yellow in its plumage, while 
this one has a stripe of pale yellow feathers over 
each eye, lengthening into a crest behind. 
Torquay fishermen have more than once seen it on 
that part of the coast ; there is, too, the well-authenti- 
cated instance of a Crested Penguin which was caught 
alive on the bathing-beach at Lome and lived for 
some days in a freshwater swimming-bath. Each 
time it was taken down to the sea it waddled back 
after its captors, until at last some one swam far out 
with the bird beyond the breakers, and it answered 
the call of the deep, and, speeding southwards, was 
