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the Supplement to Buller's Birds, which is the latest and most complete 

 list of the birds, native and visiting, that have been recorded in our area.* 



In those cases where the species is not mentioned in the Index, but is in 

 the Supplement, the word " (Suppl.) " is placed after the name. 



Birds which are not to be found in either work, but which have either 

 been unearthed from the literature by Mathews and Iredale or have been 

 described since the publication of the Supplement, are enclosed in square 

 brackets, thus: [ ]. 



A few new subspecific names are bestowed by the authors of the 

 " Reference List " ; these are indicated in the left-hand column by three 

 asterisks, thus : * * *. 



In the right-hand column I have given the names of the orders and 

 families as adopted by recent ornithologists, which differ in some cases 

 from those given in the Index. Comparison also with the Supplement is 

 rendered easy. 



The full name of the species and subspecies is followed by the name of 

 the author of the latter. Almost every one of the species has been transferred 

 by this time to some genus other than the one in which the author placed 

 it, and according to the rules of nomenclature the author's name should be 

 enclosed in brackets. These have been omitted. Then follows the breeding- 

 place of the subspecies : if it breeds in both the North and South Islands no 

 locality is mentioned ; if it breeds only on one of the outlying islands these 

 are mentioned ; but in a few instances the breeding-place is unknown, or 

 only doubtfully is it at the locality mentioned, when the question mark(?) 

 is added, thus : " Breeds ' l . Snares Islands." 



Any notes at the foot of the lists are either verbally taken or epitomized 

 from the statements of Mathews and Iredale, unless initialled " W. B. B." 



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



Names as given in the "Index Faunae 



Novae-Zealandiae " or in the Supplement 



to Buller's Birds. 



Names as given in the "Reference List" of Mathews 

 and Iredale. 



Olaucopis cinerea 

 O. wilsoni 



Heteralocha acutirostris 



Creadion carunculatus 



Tumagra crassirostris 

 T. tanagra 



Sphenoeacus punctatus 

 S. fulvus 



S. caudatus (Suppl.) 

 S. rufescens 



Order Passeriformes. 



Fam. Callaeidae. 



Vallaeas cinerea Gmelin. South Island. 

 C. wilsoni Bonaparte. North Island. 



Fam. Neomorphidae. 

 Neomorpha acutirostris Gould. North Island. 



Fam. Creadiontidae. 

 Creadion carunculatus Gmelin. 



Fam. Turdidae. 

 Tumagra capensis Sparrman. South Island. 

 T. tanagra Schlegel. North Island. 



Fam. Bowdleriidae. 

 Bowdleria punctata vealeae Kemp. North Island; 

 B. punctata punctata Quoy and Gaimard. South 



Island. 

 B. punctata caudata Buller. Snares Islands. 

 B. rufescens Buller. Chatham Islands. 



* By the New Zealand area is to be understood the two main islands (with Stewart 

 Island), Chatham Islands to the east, and to the south the Snares, Auckland Islands, 

 Campbell Islands, Antipodes Islands, Bounty Island, and Macquarie Islands. I have 

 excluded the Kermadec Islands. 



