282 Transactions. 



Art. XXX. — -Further Notes on New Zealand Bird-song : Kapiti Island. 



By Johannes C. Andersen. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 24th October, 1917 ; received by Editors, 

 31st December, 1917 ; issued separately, 24th June, 1918.] 



The figures accompanying this article contain the new notes observed since 

 publication of the paper in the Transactions of 1917.* As before, for con- 

 venience of reference, the variations in the notes of each species of bird 

 have been numbered consecutively from (1) onwards, the earlier numbers 

 appearing in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 41, p. 422 ; vol. 43, p. 656 ; vol. 45, 

 p. 387 ; vol. 47, p. 593 ; vol. 49, p. 519. Reference is at times made to 

 these earlier-numbered variations. As practically the whole of the notes 

 were recorded on Kapiti, the island bird sanctuary in Cook Strait, it has 

 been thought advisable to prefix a list of the birds occurring on the island, 

 and seen or heard by me : — 



Native Birds. 



Pied fantail (piwakawaka), Rhipidura flabellifcra. 

 *Grey warbler (riroriro), Pseudogerygone igata. 



White-breasted tit (miromiro), Petroeca toitoi. 



North Island robin (toutouwai), Miro australis. 



Whitehead (pokotea), Certhiparus cdbicapillus. 



Ground-lark (pihoihoi), Anihus novae-zealandiae. 

 *Blight-bird (tauhou), Zosterops caeridescens. 



Tui, Prosthemadera novae-zealandiae. 



Bell-bird (korimako), Anthornis melanura. 



Rifleman (titipounamu), Acanthidositta chloris. 

 *Shining cuckoo (pipiwharauroa), Chalcococcyx lucidus. 



Long-tailed cuckoo (koekoea), Urodynamis taitensis. 



Kingfisher (kotare), Halcyon vagans. 



Pigeon (kukupa), Hemiphaga novae-zealandiae. 



Kaka, Nestor meridionalis. 



Red-fronted parrakeet (kakariki), Cyanorhamphus novae-zealandiae. 

 f Antipodes Island parrakeet, Cyanorhamphus unicolor. 



Morepork (ruru), Ninox novae-zealandiae. 



Woodhen (weka), Ocydromus sp. 

 fKiwi, Apteryx sp. 



Blue heron (matuku), Demiegretta sacra. 



Blue petrel, Halobaena caerulea. 



Mutton-bird (titi), Oestrelata sp. 



Gannet (takapu), Sulci serrator. 



Tern (tara), Sterna sp. 



(lull (karoro), Larus sp. 



Introduced Birds. 



Song-thrush, Turdus musicus. 

 Skylark, Alauda arvensis. 

 Goldfinch, Carduelis elegans. 

 Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. 

 Californian quail, Callipepla califomica. 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 49, pp. .",19-30. 



