66 Transactions. — Zoology. 



throtis, of which several Hviug examples were brought by the 

 " Hinemoa." The Parrakeet from the Auckland Islands of 

 which I exhibited a pair at a former meeting of this Society 

 is no doubt referable to the same species. The Parrakeet from 

 Macaulay Island (Kermadec group), of which several were 

 brought by the " Hinemoa," is undoubtedly the same as our 

 PlatyccrciLs novce-zealandice, which enjoys a wide geographic 

 range. 



I had one of these birds caged for some time. Its irides 

 were of a clear pink colour when in health, but they became 

 paler when the bird sickened and died. 



Platycercus novffi-zealandiae. (The Red-fronted Parrakeet.) 

 Specimens brought from Macaulay Island, in the Kermadec 

 group, do not differ in any respect from the New Zealand 

 bird. An example of the latter has lately come into my pos- 

 session in which the entire abdomen is greenish-yellow, 

 whilst there is a narrow halo of the same colour around the 

 frontal spot of crimson. 



Nestor notabilis. (The Kea Parrot.) 



In vol. ix. of our "Transactions" I have recorded some 

 curious instances of deformity in the bill of Nestor mcridionalis. 

 I have lately received from Dunedin a specimen of Nestor 

 notabilis in which the upper mandible presents a very strange 

 malformation, as shown in the accompanying sketch (Plate 

 XIV., fig. 1). 



Ocydromus earli. (The Brown Woodhen.) 



Captain Fairchild brought to me from the Macquarie 

 Islands a live female Weka. It undoubtedly belongs to the 

 above species, the irides being bright chestnut-red, and the legs 

 of a beautiful lake-red colour. Seeing that the range of this 

 species in New Zealand is, so far as we at present know, re- 

 stricted to a portion of the west coast of the South Island, its 

 occurrence on Macquarie Islands, about five iiundred and fifty 

 miles to the south-south-west of New Zealand, is a very 

 curious fact in geographical distribution. 



Ocydromus greyi. (The North Island Woodhen.) 



To the numerous instances of albinism in New Zealand 

 birds I have now to add another. A specimen of the above 

 species from Hawke's Bay presents a singular piebald cha- 

 racter : The forehead, fore part of crown, sides of head, 

 throat, foreneck, and all the under-parts are pure white ; the 

 normal colour appearing in a small patch in the middle of the 

 breast, behind the thighs, and under the tail. The plumage of 



