Order SPHENISCIFORMES. 
No. 45. 
Family SPHENISCIDjE. 
EUDYPTES CRISTATUS. 
(FILHOLI.) 
CRESTED PENGUIN. 
(Plate 32.) 
Eudyptes Vieillot, Analyse Nouv. Ornith., pp. 67, 70, April 14th, 1816. Type (by subsequent 
designation, of Gray, p. 77, 1840): Gatarrhactes chrysocome Auct. =Aptenodytes cristala 
Miller (for synonyms see my Check List Birds Austr., p. 2, Feb. 16th, 1920, and Manual 
Birds Austr., p. 10, March 9th, 1921). 
Aptenodytes crestata (sic) Miller, Yar. Subj. Nat. Hist., pt.ix., pi. 49, 1784 : Falkland Islands. 
Figured, Cim. Phys., pi. 49. 
Catarrhactes chrysocome Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 635, 1898, pref. 
Sept. 30th, and of most authors not Aptenodytes chrysocome Forster, Comm. Gotting., 
Vol. III., p. 135, 1781, after May 15th, which is indeterminable. 
Eudyptes filholi Hutton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. III., p. 334, May 1879 : Campbell Island, 
New Zealand. 
Eudyptes serresianus Mathews, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 184, Jan. 1917 ; id.. Check List Birds Austr., 
pt. 1, p. 2., Feb. 16th, 1920 ; Alexander, Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 296, April 1920 ; Mathews 
and Iredale, Manual Birds Austr., p. 11, pi. i., March 9th, 1921. 
Eudyptes cristatus Iredale and Cayley, Emu, Vol. XXV., p. 4, pis. 1 and 2, July 1925. 
Eudyptes cristatus filholi Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 10, 1927. 
Distribution . Southern Australian seas, from West Australia to Tasmania; New Zealand. 
Breeding on Campbell and Macquarie Islands. 
Adult. General colour of the upper-surface glossy dark slate-blue, each pointed feather with 
black at the base ; lores brownish-black ; a golden-yellow eyebrow" stripe commencing 
behind the nasal feathers, continued along the sides of the head and ending in a long lateral 
crest, the longest feathers of which measure 81 mm. : top of the head glossy blue-black, 
the feathers along the sides of the crown greatly lengthened (about 80 mm. in length), sides 
of face, chin and throat blackish-brown ; remainder of under-surface pure white ; upper- 
surface of flipper like the back, bordered on the middle of the inner margin with white, 
under-surface of flipper white, black at the base. Total length about 600 mm. : flipper 
150, tail 107, tarsus 31, exposed culmen 50. Figured. Collected on Campbell Island. 
The sexes are alike. 
Nest. A depression. 
Eggs. Clutch two, bluish-white, 75-80 by 45 mm. 
Breeding-season. October. 
This is another Penguin that is an occasional visitor to the southern parts 
of Australia. 
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