Family, Psittacid.e. 



Subfamily 1. Pezoporince. 



Platycercus nov^ Zeelandi*. 



Psittacus pacificus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 73. Icon, 

 iited. 44 — 46. 



Pacific Parrot, Lath. St/i>. i. 252. 



Psittacus pacificus, var. &. Gniel. Syst. Nat. i. 329. 



Psittacus novas Seelanrlia), Sparrni. Mas. Carls, t. 28. 



Platycercus novae Seelandise, IVagl. Monogr. Psitt. p. 



Platycercus pacificus, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. 529, pi. 

 suppl. 1. 



Green ; forehead, region of the cars, and some of the 

 side feathers margined with crimson ; beneath yellowish 

 green ; quills black, with the outer webs blue and margined 

 with yellow. 



Length, 9 inches ; bill from gape, 6 lines ; wings, b\ 

 inches ; tarsi, 8 lines. 



Length, 12 inches; bill from gape, 9 lines ; wings. Sc- 

 inches ; tarsi, 9 lines. 



" Habitat in tota insula australi Nova; Zselandiae, vic- 

 titat baccis, nam in arboribus et fructicibus bacciferis 

 plerumque obvius: praecipue in Coccoloba australi et Phy- 

 tolacca completa." Forster. 



Kakiriki, Powaitere, or Po-e-tere are the names by which 

 this species is known to the natives. Tt is found in New 

 Zealand, Auckland and Chatham Islands. 



Platycercus adriceps. 



Psittacus auriceps, ifwA^, Nov. Act. Acad. C(bs. Cur. x. 

 p. 46. 



Platycercus auriceps. Vigors, Zool. Journ. 1825, 531, 

 pi. suppl. 2. 



Psittacus pacificus, var 5'. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 104. 



Green ; beneath yellowish green ; frontal band and some 

 of the side feathers margined with scarlet ; vertex of the 

 head golden yellow ; quills black, the outer webs blue, 

 margined with yellow ; tail green, margined with yellow. 



Length, 9 inches ; bill from gape, ^ an inch ; wings, 4 

 inches ; tarsi, 7 lines. 



Length, 1 1 inches ; bill from gape, 7 lines ; wings, 4 

 inches, 5 lines ; tarsi, 8J lines. 



This species inhabits various parts of New Zealand. 



Trichoglossus aurifrons. 



Psittacus (Lathamus) aurifrons. Less. Cent. Zool. t. 18. 



Trichoglossus aurifrons, Wagl. Monogr. Psitt. p. 



Upper surface lively green ; urojjygium, forehead, and 

 all the under surface golden yellow, tinged on the abdo- 

 men with gi-een ; quills azure blue, with the extremities 

 black. 



Length, 7 inches 4 lines, (French). 



This species is given, as found in New Zealand, on the 

 authority of M. Lesson. 



Subfamily 2, Cacatuince. 

 Nestor meridionalis. 



Psittacus hypopolius, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 72. Icon, 

 ined. 50. 



Southern Brown Parrot, Lath. Sgn. i. 264. 



Psittacus meridionalis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 333. 



Psittacus nestor, iMth. Ind. Orn. i. 110. 



Psittacus australis, Shaw, Mus. Lev. pi. p. 87. 



Nestor hypopolius, Wagl. Monogr. Psitt. p. 



Olivaceous, each feather margined with brown ; fore 

 part of the neck and breast greyish brown, margined with 

 dark brown ; nape rufous brown, margined with yellow 

 and black ; uropygium and abdomen purplish blood red, 

 banded with black ; crown of head and lores gi"ey, mar- 

 gined with dark brown ; region of the ears golden yellow, 

 margined with brown ; feathers projecting over the lower 

 mandible obscure red, streaked with grey in the middle ; 

 tail greenish brown, ban-ed on the inner margins of the 

 inner webs with pale red. 



Length, 1 foot 1^ inches; bill fi-om gape, 1 inch 7 lines; 

 wings, 11 inches; tarsi, 1 inch 2 lines. 



" Habitat in insula utraque Novae Zeelandia;, victitat 

 baccis et nucibus, garrulus, fistilat voce alta et clamosa, 

 praesertim mane et vesperi. Maxime australis congenerum 

 quippe vivens in 46° Lat. Austr." Forster. 



This bird is the Kaka of the natives. 



Family, Cuculid^. 



To this family, says Dr. Dieffeubach, probably belongs 

 the bird known to the natives by the name of Kakapo, and 

 judging from some tail-feathers of a green metallic lustre, 

 which were obtained in the interior, the bird may belong 

 to the genus Centropus[}). Dr. D. further remarks that the 

 living birds, nor even an entire specimen, have not been 

 seen by any of the missionaries, nor by the natives, for 

 manj' years past. Its destruction he considers to be ow- 

 ing to the introduction of cats and dogs, as the bird used 

 to perch only on the lower branches of trees, and therefore 

 was easily obtained by those animals. The natives caught 

 it by means of the glare of a torch during the night. 



Mr. P. Earl is induced, from iuformation which he ob- 

 tained during his recent travels, to suppose that this rare 

 bird still exists in the southern parts of the South Island, 

 and that it seldom visits the northern portions. He was 

 informed by Mr. Gerard, many years resident in New Zea- 

 land, that he had seen the bird in the bay in which he lived, 

 and described it as a climbing bird ; and by Mr. Hughes, 

 a whaling master at Moiraki, that he had had a living spe- 

 cimen in his possession some years ago. Mr. H. said that 

 it had a long tail ; the bill was hooked like a hawk or a 

 parrot's ; and that it was very strong on the wing, and 

 would attack other birds, even the Nestor meridionalis, to 

 which it was little inferior in size. 



Subfamily, Cuculinw. 



EUDYNAMIS TAITEXSIS. 



Cuculus fasciatus, Forst. Desc. Anim. p. 160. Icon, 

 ined. 56. 



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