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male and female. The birds had been shot on the south-east 

 island on the 8th May, 1892." 



CEstrelata cervicalis, Salvin. (Sunday Island Petrel.) 



Shortly before I went to Europe, Captain Fairchild kindly 

 presented me with a beautiful Petrel from Sunday Island, in 

 both adult and young states. The bird appeared to me to be 

 an entirely new species, but, as I was going Home, I decided 

 to delay my publication of it till I could compare my speci- 

 mens with the types in the British Museum. But 1 was too 

 late with it, for, in the meantime, a Captain Carpenter had 

 sent a skin to the Museum, and Mr. Salvin had named it as 

 above. It had fallen into good hands ; and my only regret in 

 the matter was that I had wished to connect Captain Fair- 

 child's name with this fine species. 



CEstrelata affinis, Buller. (Mottled Petrel.) 



Professor Hutton is in error in stating (loc. cit., p. 753) 

 that Mr. Salvin had identified my CEstrelata affinis with 

 CE. gularis (Peale). Had our acknowledged authority on 

 Petrels, Mr. Salvin, so identified my bird, I certainly should 

 not have described and figured it as CEstrelata affinis in my 

 second edition of "The Birds of New Zealand." While ad- 

 mitting the species, Mr. Salvin suggested that it might prove 

 to be the same as CE. gularis, Peale (see Ibis, 1888, p. 358), 

 and so the matter rests. Professor Hutton knew this perfectly 

 well, because I had stated the facts in my account of the 

 species. The type of CEstrelata gularis is in the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and neither Mr. Salvin nor I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of comparing it with CE. affinis, mini. 



Puffinus gavia, Forst. (Forster's Shearwater.) 



A nestling obtained in the Hauraki Gulf, on the 8th No- 

 vember, was covered with very long and thick down of 

 extremely soft texture, and dark slate-grey, on the upper parts; 

 thick and close, and of a paler grey, on the under parts, fading 

 to whitish on the crop and foreneck. Black feathers just be- 

 ginning to appear on the wings. 



Puffinus griseus, Gmelin. (Sombre Shearwater.) 



A nestling obtained from one of the islands in the Hauraki 

 Gulf, on the 18th November, was covered with thick down, 

 long, extremely fine, and dark slate-grey in colour on the 

 upper parts, shorter and thicker on the under parts ; paler 

 grey on the sides of the body ; white on the foreneck, crop, 

 and down the centre of the abdomen, in a broad band, to the 

 vent. 



