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Notes on CATARRHACTES CHRYSOCOME (Forster) 
The Crested Penguin. 
(Read before the Society by C. Price Conigrave, 14th September 
1900.) 
I have great pleasure in recording the finding of a specimen 
of the Crested Penguin on Rottnest Island, near Fremantle, 
during the month of July last. Mr. Miller, of the Signal Station, 
found the bird, which had appaiently only just expired, on the 
beach. Mr. Otto Lipfert, the Taxidermist to the Western 
Australian Museum, happened to be collecting on Rottnest 
Island at the time, and he was able to prepare the valuable 
skin. Mr. A. J. Campbell records this species as having been 
found at Hamelin, near Cape Leeuwin, and, as far as I can gather, 
this is only' the second specimen to be secured in Western Aus- 
tralia. I regret that owing to m\ failing to obtain the consent 
of the Director of the Museum 1 am unable to exhibit this in- 
teresting specimen. 
Notes on the Spawning of the SCHNAPPER 
(Pagrus unicolor) at Warnbro Sound (Safety Bay.) 
(Read before the Society on the 14th December, 1909, by 
A. Abjornsson, Inspector of Fisheries.) 
The Schnapper is a well-known fish along the coastline of 
Western Australia, and to a naturalist it affords scope for very 
interesting study, and especially so during the spawning season. 
From various causes some of these fish spawn early and some, 
late in the season. I have seen Schnappers caught with ripe roe 
in September and as late as February, but the height of the 
season is November. In the season of the y'ear 1901 all line 
fishing and the taking of'Schnapper was prohibited from the 1st 
of October to the 31st of December at Warnbro Sound. 
We have the large-sized Schnapper with a hump on the 
nose, commonly' called the “ Old Man ” Schnapper, varying in 
weight from 15 to 27 lbs., and known to fishermen to inhabit 
the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, only visiting our coast 
(that is in numbers) once a year for the purpose of spawning ; 
and the lesser size, varying in weight from 3 to 10 lbs., commonly 
called the “ Reef Schnapper,” which may be met with along the 
coastline all the year round. 
