BY TOM iredale:. 78? 



Mr. Hull notes thnt a paper on tlie Birds of Norfolk Island^ 

 Ly A. von Pelzeln, in the Sitzungs. Kaiserl. Akad. Wissen.Wien, 

 (xii., pp.319-332, 1860) is not available in Sydney. A short 

 summary may therefore be acceptable. Twenty-one species are 

 recorded, the majority names only. These are : — 



Astur approxiiyiaiisYig. ikHorsf., Climacteris scandensHQvam., 

 ZosLerops tenuirostiis Gould, Zosterops alboyularis Gould, Gerij- 

 gone Diodesta, n.sp.,(p.320), Turdits jJoliocepJial'iis Lath., lihipidura 

 assimilis, n.sp.,(p.3'20), Pachycep)hala longirostris Gould, Campe' 

 phaga loiigicaiulata, n.sp.,(p.32I), Aplonis obsciu-us Duhus, A^estoj' 

 norfolcensis, n.sp.,(p.322, Plate of head), Hemiphaga spadicea 

 Lath., Leucosarciapicata Lath., Charadriiisxaiithocheilus Wagler,. 

 FAmosa baueri Natterer, Totanus (jlottis Linne, Xotornis (1:) alba 

 White, Anas superciliosa Gmel., Puffiiuis chlororhynclius Less , 

 Procellaria atlantica Gould, PhaetJion phcenicuriis Gmel. 



The name assimilis given to the lihipidura was changed ta 

 pelzelni by Gray, (Ibis, 1862, p. 226) on account of a prior use of 

 the name assimilis. Campephaga longicaudata Pelzeln, is a 

 synonym of Diap>Jioroj)teri(,s leucopygitts Gould. The figure given 

 of the head of Nestor norfulcensis is obviously that of a deformed 

 bird; and, as the extreme variability of species of that genus is 

 well known, the name seems superfluous. However, Rothschild 

 has advanced the theory that it may have been a native of Lord 

 Howe Island; he observes that it seems quite unlikely that 

 different species should be represented on Phillip and Norfolk 

 Islands. In favor of this view we have mention in Lieut. Watts's 

 account of "parrots" as well as parroquets when Lord Howe 

 Island was discovered. Though Mr. Hull gives Norfolk Island 

 alone as the habitat of the extinct Heviiphaga spadicea Lath., it 

 is obvious that it was formerly as common on Lord Howe Island. 



When putting together these notes, I observed records of some 

 birds which have escaped Mr. Hull's notice. In the Eecords of 

 the Australian Museum^Vol. v., p. 126, 1904), North has written 

 "Another collection of birds made by Mr. Waite on Lord Howe 

 Island in December, 1902, contains two species that have not 

 previously been recorded from that Island, viz., 2'ringa subar- 



