All Rights Reserved. March, 1920. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Golden-Crowned Penguin. 
( Catarrhactes chrysolophus) 
Bv W. T. Page, F.Z.S., ktc. 
I recently had an op])ortunity of payini^ a rather luirried 
visit to tlie London Zoo, and made the acquaintance of this new 
(to Cireat Britain), beautiful and interesting' penguin. 
At my request Mr. D. Seth Smith, F.Z.S. (Curator of 
birds) kindly consented to send me a photo of them for repro 
duction in Bird Notes. A glance at this will show this rare 
species, new to Zoo collections, to be of typical form and deport- 
ment to the Black-footed Penguin ( S pJietilscus (le)uersiis ) but 
that it lacks entirely the white facial markings of the latter 
species; apparently, that is judging from my short observation 
of it, it is of a more lively disposition than S. dcmersHS, two of 
which shared the same enclosure. 
I was accompanied by our member Capt. J. S. Reeve and 
we were much interested as we stood outside the fence of the 
enclosure, laid out with pond, rockwork, etc., by their lameness 
and liveliness — they paraded up and down for our inspection wi^h 
wings outspread like two arms, as if performing a balancing 
feat, standing quite placidly to have their plumag-e stroked and 
the skin underneath tickled, apparently quite enjoying same, 
and they were the pair, among the birds, which appealed to me 
most during the visit. 
Turning up various books, when I got home, gleaning 
therefrom the following facts: — 
This species is less common in its native habitat than the 
