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trom the Heaphy Ranges, is clearly abnormally small, and has an exceptionally 

 thick shell and is elliptical oval in shape, while nsiially the eggs of Apfen/x have 

 a more or less distinctly pointed smaller end. It measnres llo by TTo mm. 



This fine Kiwi is only known to inhabit the mountain-range running parallel 

 to the west coast of the South Island. In my controversy with Dr. Forbes in 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and in the Bulletin of the B.O. 

 Club, I have made erroneous statements about this species also being fonnd on 

 the North Island, where only Apteryx australis muntelli and;4. oiceni occidentali.t 

 are known to occur. My mistake arose from a specimen of A . oweni occidentalis 

 having been sent to me from the North Island as a young of A. kaasti, and 

 from the fact that specimens of A. haasti were liberated on a small islet 

 near Papaitouga. 



Very little is on record about the life-history of Haast's Kiwi, but from what 

 we know its habits are similar to those of the other species of Apteryx. 



4. Apteryx oweni Gould. 

 Owen's Kiwi. 



1847. Apte.ryx oweni (spelt Owenii) J. Gould in P. Zool. Soc. Loml. p. 94 ; 1848, Gould, B. Australia. 

 V. VI. PI. 3 ; 1849, Gould in Trans. Znol. Soc. v. Til. p. 379, PI. 57 ; 18.il, Reichenbach, Syn. 

 Ar., Gnllinaceae. Xovitia,; t. .'587, ff. 2U92, 2693 ; 1801, Sclater & Hochstetter in Rep. Brit. Ass. 

 Adv. Sr. p 17G, and Xat. Hist. Review, p. 505 ; 1862, Sclater in Trans. Zool. Soc. Land. v. IV. 

 p. 362 ; 1867, Finsch mJ. f. 0. pp. 329, 346, 1872, p. 268, 1874, pp. 174, 220 ; 1869, Potts in 

 Trans. N. Zealand hist. v. 2, p. 67 (egg) ; 1873, Schlegel, J/»s. P. B. v. IV. Strutkioites, p. 8 ; 

 1873, BuUer, B. New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 368, PI. 34 ; 1873, Garrod in P. Zool. Soc. Land. 

 pp. 470, 641 (anatomy) ; 1874, Haast in Ihis, p. 215 ; 1875, Rowley in Orn. Misc. v. I. p. '20 

 PI. II. (cj ad.) PI. V. (juv.) ; 1876, BuUer in Trans. Neiv Zeal. Inst. v. VIII. p. 193 ; Forbes 

 in P. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 781 (trachea) ; 1882, Buller, .Uanual V. Zeal. B. p. 46, PI. XXI. a ; 

 1884, A. B. Meyer, Aljhilel. Vorielskelelte, p. 42, PI. LIV. : 1884, Reischek in Trans. N. Zral. 

 Inst. V. XVII. p. 192 (biological observations) ; Beddard in /'. Zool. Soc. p. 189 (anatomy of 

 heart) ; Parker in Ibis, p. 127 (manus) ; Buller, B. Nov Zealand, 2nd ed. v. II. p. 327 ; ISIH, 

 Buller in Tran<. N. Zeal. Inst. v. XXIV. p. 90 (Preservation Inlet), 1893, v. XXV. p. 8r, ; 

 1893, A. Newton, Diet. B. p. 495 ; 1893, Rothschild in Bull. B. 0. Club, No. X. pp. LX— LXII., 

 and Ibi.% pp. 573-6 ; 1895, Buller in Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. v. XXVII. pp. 82, 137, 142 ; 

 1896, BuUer, in Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. v. XXVIII. p. 357. 



1869, 1871, 1872, Apteryx oweni, Sclater in P. Zool. Soc. Loml. pp. 468, 479, 861. 



1873, Apterijj; mollis. Potts in Trans. & Proc. N. Zeal. Inst. v. 5, p. 196 (Martin's Bay, W, Coast, 

 albino). 



1875, Apteryx fuscns (non Potts, 1873), Rowley in Orn. Misc. v. 2, p. 8. 



DESCRIPTION OF A. OWENI. 



t? ad. Head and throat brownish grey, darker on the occiput and hindneck, 

 feathers of the neck slightly marked with indistinct greyish-whitish bars, which 

 increase in distinctness towards the back and flanks. Upper surface of body deep 

 brownish grey, each feather with one or two bars of a greyish white colour. These 

 bars are less wide and generally less distinct than in A. haasti, being more or less 

 of a horseshoe shape and irregular in outline. Undersurface of body much jjuler, 

 of a whitish grey colour with a number of darker grey bands on each feather. 

 Total length about 415 mm. Measurements of ten sexed adult males in my 

 collection : Calmen 84, 76, 90, 80, 83, 80, 96, 77, 87, 76. Bill from gape to tip 9.5, 

 85, 99, 90, 90, 87, 110, 84, 92, 83. Tarsus 56, 54, 55, 61, 55, 57, 59, 52, 54, 55. 

 Middle toe without claw 43, 47, 42, 50, 455, 40, 48, 44, 42, 40 mm. 



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