HuTTON. — Occurrence of the Curleiv-Sandjnper. 155 



Art. XIV. — Descripiion of a New Blmo-fiy from Campbell 



Island. 



By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.E.S. 



\^Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th November, 



1903.] 



Calliphora cockaynei, sp. nov. 



2 . Head and face brownish-black, third joint of antennae 

 lighter ; palpi and tip of proboscis fulvous. Eyes hairy ; 

 thorax brownish-black ; a fulvous spot on each side behind 

 the eye and another at the base of the wings. Wings tinged 

 with fulvous ; the veins dark-brown, but fulvous at their 

 insertion, thus making a double fulvous spot on the side of 

 the thorax. Squamae grey ; abdomen metallic greenish-blue ; 

 legs black. Length, 12-5 mm.; wings, 10 mm. 



Hab. Campbell Island. Collected by Dr. L. Cockayne, 

 July, 1903. 



Described from a single specimen which had been put 

 into formalin. 



Allied to C. quadrimaculata, but easily distinguished by 

 the colour of the abdomen. 



Art. XV. — On the Occurrence of the Ciorleiv- Sandpiper (x\.n- 

 cylochilus sub-arquatus) m Netv Zealand. 



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



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, -ith Noveviber, 



1903.] 



The Curlew-Sandpiper is one of those birds which breed in 

 the Arctic regions and pass the winter in Africa, India, and 

 Australia. We do not know it as a regular visitor to New 

 Zealand, but two specimens were shot at Lake EUesmere by 

 Mr. Edgar Stead on the 5th of last April, one of which went 

 to the British Museum and the other to the Canterbury 

 Museum. The British Museum specimen is in the winter 

 plumage, but the one in our Museum is just commencing to 

 change into the breeding-plumage, having rufous feathers on 

 its breast and rusty ones on the neck and back. The length 

 of the bill is 1-4 in.; of the wing, 5-3 in. ; of the tarsus, 

 1'15 in. ; and of the middle toe and claw, 1-15 in. 



The bird is easily recognised from any of the other Sand- 

 pipers by its long slender bill, which is slightly curved down- 

 wards, and by the white upper tail-coverts. 



