CONTENTS. 



TEANSACTIONS. 



I. — Miscellaneous. pages 



Art. I. Notes on Two Maori Calabashes, with Carved Wooden 



Necks, called Tuki or Ko-ano-ano. By Dr. Newman 1- 4 

 II. On the Maori Method of preparing and using Koko- 



wai. By Archdeacon Walsh . . . . . . 4-10 



III. Moriori Carving on the Trunks of Karaka-trees. By 



A. Hamilton . . . . . . . . H- IS 



IV. Llaori Marriage Customs : being Notes on Ancient 



Maori Customs, Ritual and Sociological, con- 

 nected with Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce ; 

 together with some Account of the Levirate, and 

 of many Superstitious Beliefs and Ancient Ani- 

 mistic ilyths connected with the same, as held 

 and preserved bv the Maori Peoples of the Tuhoe 

 Tribe. By Elsdon Best . . . . . . 14- 67 



V. The Sparrow Plague and its Remedy. By A. Bath- 

 gate .. .. .. .. ..67-79 



VI. Note on the Veracity of the Returns of Age in the 



Census of 1901. By Professor Segar . . . . 80- 84 



VII. On Certain Decimal and Metric Fallacies. By R. 



Coupland Harding . . . . . . . . 85-111 



II. — Zoology. 

 VIII. The Kohoperoa or Koekoea, Long -tailed Cuckoo 

 ( Urodynamis taitensis) : An Account of its Habit>i, 

 Description of a Nest containing its (supposed) 

 Egg, and a Suggestion as to how the Parasitic 

 Habit in Birds has become established. By 

 Robert Fulton, M.B., CM., Edin. . . . . 113-148 



IX. Description of a New Fish. By Captain F. W. 



Button, F.R.S. .. .. .. .. 148-149 



X. On the Occurrence of Centrolophiis in New Zealand. 



By Captain F. \Y. Hutton, F.R.S. . . . . 149-150 



XI. Revision of the New Zealand Members of the Genus 



Fhorocera. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. . . 1.50-153 

 XII. Two New Flies. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 153-154 



XI II. On a New Weta from the Chatham Islands. By 



Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. .. .. 154 



XIV. Description of a New Blow-fly from Campbell Island. 



By Captain F. VV. Hutton, F.R.S. . . . . 155- 



XV. On the Occurrence of the Curlew-Sandpiper {Ancylo- 

 chilus sub-arqnatus) in New Zealand. By Captain 

 F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. .. .. ..155-156 



XVI. On the Anatomy of Parvphaoita fumosn, Tenison- 



Woods. By R. Murdoch"' . . . . . . 156-161 



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