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Transactions. 



II. — List of. Birds which breed within the New Zealand Area — continued. 



Names as given in the " Index Faunae 

 Novae-Zealandiae " or in the Supplement Names as given in the • Reference List " of Mathews . 



to Buller's Birds. aI1(1 Iredale. 



Eudyptula minor 

 E. albosignata . . 

 \E. minor iredalei Mathews, 1911] 



Podiceps cristatus 

 P. rufipectus . . 



Gasarca vuriegata 

 Anas superciliosa 

 Net Hon gibberijrons 



Elasmonetta chlorotis 

 Nesonetta aucklandica . . 

 Spatula rhynchotis 

 Fuligula novae-zealandiae 

 Hymenola emus malacorhyn chu a 

 ■Merganser australis 



Apteryx australis 



A. lawryi (Suppl.) 



A. mantelli 



A soiveni 



A. occidentals 



A. haasti 



Eudyptula minor minor Forster. South Island. 

 E. minor albosignata Finsch. Banks Peninsula. 

 E. minor iredalei Mathews. Chatham Islands. 



Order Podicipiiformes. . 



. Fam. Podicipiidae. 



Podiceps cristatus australis Gould. 

 Poliocephalns rufopectus Gray. 



Order Anseriformes. 

 Fam. Anatidae. 

 Gasarca oariegata Gmelin. 

 Anas superciliosa superciliosa Gmelin. 

 " Unable to satisfy ourselves of the occurrence 



either in Australia or New Zealand." 

 Elasmonetta chlorotis Gray. 



Nesonetta aucklandica Gray. Auckland Islands. 

 Spatula rhynchotis variegata Gould. 

 Fuligula novaeseelandiae Gmelin. 

 Hymenolaimns malacorhynchos Gmelin. 

 Promergus australis Hombron and Jacquinot. 



Auckland , Islands. 



Order Apterygiformes. 

 Fam. Apterygidae. 



Apteryx australis australis Shaw and Nodder. 



South Island. 

 A. australis lawryi Rothschild. Stewart Island. 

 A. australis mantelli Bartlett. North Island. 

 A. owenii owenii Gould. ? Both Islands. 

 A. owenii occidentalis Rothschild. West Coast 



ranges, South Island. ■< 



A. haastii Potts. West Coast ranges, South Island. 



List III. — Many of the birds included, in the Index and the Supplement 

 are not native to the country ; they do not breed within the New Zealand 

 area ; they are occasional visitors, stragglers from neighbouring lands. In 

 the Index no notification is given that many of these are not in the same 

 category as our truly native forms ; and though Hutton does give a list of 

 wanderers, on page 37, yet he includes in the. body of his list many of those 

 enumerated below. 



It is desirable that our list of birds be purged of these occasional visitors. 

 I have excluded from this list the birds which occur on the Kermadec 

 Islands, for on the evidence of most of the groups of the animal kingdom 

 these islands lie outside the New Zealand area, though in the case of the 

 birds many of our natives do occur there ; and Iredale has recently pub- 

 lished a list of the birds of the Kermadecs (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 45, TIM 3, 



P- 78 )- 



In this list I have again followed the arrangement of the Index, and 



have added after the modern names of the birds the number of occurrences 



in New Zealand which have been recorded, and which have been verified 



by the 1 authors of the list so far as possible. It will be seen on what slender 



justification many — indeed, most — of them have been included in lists of 



New Zealand birds. 



