Oliver. — Birds of Lord Howe, Norfolk, and Kermadec Island*. 



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Sterna fuliginosa. 

 Gygis alba. 

 Anous leucocapillus. 

 Procelsterna cinerea. 

 Phaethon pubricauda. 

 Sula cyanops. 



Daption capensis. 

 Diomedea exulans. 



D. melanophrys. 

 Phoebetria fuliginosa. 

 Pelagodroma marina. 

 Sula leucogaster. 



Sea-birds — Breeding. 



Pufhiius sphenurus. 

 P. assimilis. 

 Oestrelata cervicalis. 

 0. neglecta. 

 0. nigripennis. 



Visitors — Sea-birds . 



Purlin us tenuirostris. 

 Fregata aquila. 

 Prion desolatus. 

 Oestrelata macroptera. 

 Sterna bergii. 



Visitors — Mi y rants. 



Charadrius dominicus. Erolia aurita. 



€. veredus. Limosa novae-zealandiae. 



Tringa eanutus. Chalcococcyx lucidus. 



Numenius variegatus. Eudynamys taitensis. 



Visitors — Occasioned. 



Circus gouldi. Anthus novae-zealandiae. 



Zosterops caerulescens. Phalacrocorax sulcii-ostris. 



Visitors 



Hypotaenidia philippensis. 

 Porphyrio melanonotus. 



Accidental. 



Demiegretta sacra. 



Art. XXIV. —A Preliminary Account of the Lower Waipara Gorge. 

 By R. Speight. M.Sc, F.G.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 6th December, 1911.] 



Although the various localities of North Canterbury where Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary rocks occur, such as the Middle Waipara, Weka Pass, Motunau, 

 Oraihi, and the Okuku, have received most careful attention, and have 

 been fully dealt with on different occasions by the officers of the Geological 

 Survey, by Haast, Hutton, and Park, and latterly by Marshall, Cotton, 

 and the present writer, the district at the mouth of the Waipara River 

 has hardly been noticed. Except the very brief mention of its structure 

 by Hector (Geological Reports, 18GS-69, p. x) and by Haast (" Geology 

 of Canterbury and Westland," pp. 316-17), the published matter dealing 

 with it consists merely of the list of fossils collected by Buchanan and 

 Haast, referred to by Hutton in his report on the " Geology of the North- 

 east Portion of the South Island " (Geological Survey Report, 1873-74, 

 p. 52) and in his various publications dealing with our Tertiary series 

 and its fossil-content, and the list given by Haast in his " Geology of 



