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Constanter per paria repeita, unde earn monogamam sus- 

 l^icor. Sono acuto fistulat." Forster. 



According to Forster's drawing, this bird is the He-wee- 

 go of the natives of Dusky Bay. Mr. P. Earl procured his 

 specimen at Waikowaiti, as it was swimming about with 

 his tame ducks. It is seldom seen on the east coast of 

 the South Island ; it is, however, more abundant inland 

 and on the east side : and he states that it is known by the 

 name of Whiho. The bill of the living bird is a clear 

 ivory white, margined with black. 



FULIGULA NOVyE ZeALANDI^. 



Plate 18. 



Anas atricilla, Forsf. Desc. Anim. p. 95. Icon, itied. 79. 

 New Zealand Duck, Lath. Si/ii. vi. 543. 

 Anas novse Zealandiae, Gmel. Si/.st. Nat. i. 541. 

 Fuligula novse Zealandise, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. 123. 



Male. Black, tinged with green, and the head and back 

 of neck with pui'ple ; abdomen white, varied with black ; 

 sides deep rufous, speckled with white ; the back minutely 

 spotted with white ; speculum white. 



Female. Dull black, feathers of the head, neck iind 

 isides margined with castaneous ; beneath the body white, 

 mottled with ashy brown. 



Length, 1 foot 3j inches ; bill from gape, 1 inch 9 lines ; 

 wings, 7i inches ; tarsi, 15 Hues. 



" Habitat in insula australi Nova; Zealaudiae, praesertim 

 in Portu Obscuro; ad ostia rivulorum in sinubus maris 

 vento parum expositis, locisque aestu inundatis. Gregaria 

 a me reperta." Forster. 



This bird is named by the natives He patek, according 

 to Forster's drawings, but Mr. P. Earl says it is Repo. 



Subfamily, ErismaturiiKB. 



Nesonetta Adcklandica. 



Plate 17. 



Nesonetta aucklandica, G. R. Gray. 



Upper surface blackish brown, with some of the feathers 

 with green reflections, and margined with rufous, others 

 varied with vermiculations of the same colour, especially 

 on the upper part of the back and sides ; cheeks and sides 

 of neck brown, speckled with dusky white ; breast ferru- 

 ginous, varied with obscure spots ; abdomen brown, band- 

 ed with dusky white. 



Length, 1 foot 41- inches ; bill from gape, If inches ; 

 wings, 5f inches ; tarsi, I3- inch. 



Two specimens of this bird were obtained by the Expe- 

 dition when at Auckland Island. 



Subfamily, MergincB. 

 Mergds australis. 

 Mergus australis, Hombr. et Jacq. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 

 1841,;?. 320. 



Blackish brown, feathers bordered with a tinge of grey ; 

 head brown, spotted with black; neck reddish brown ; the 

 wings with a white spot in the middle, which is traversed 

 by a zigzag black band ; throat and anterior part of neck 



red ; breast slaty grey, undulated with white ; belly and 

 uropygium white, imdulated with slaty grey ; sides and 

 beneath the wings deep slate colour ; some of the second- 

 aries and scapulars white, the former mottled with a tinge 

 of slaty ; the lower tail-coverts slaty black, margined with 

 white ; tail-feathers greyish black. 



Length, 20 inches. 



This bird was found by the officers of the French Ant- 

 arctic Expedition at Auckland Island. 



Family, Colymbid^. 

 Subfamily, ColymbmcB. 



PODICEPS RUFIPECTUS. 



Plate 19. 



Podiceps (Poliocephalus) rufopectus, G. R. Gray, Dieff. 

 Trav. N. Z. App. p. 198. 



Adult. Top of head black ; sides of head, throat, nape 

 and thighs dusky, the two former ornamented with white 

 linear feathers ; breast dark rufous ; back black, some of 

 the feathers margined with grey and tinged with green ; 

 wing-coverts and quills brownish black, with the base of 

 the latter white ; secondaries white, tipped with brownish 

 black ; beneath silvery white mottled with rufous. 



Length, lOj inches; bill from gape, 1 inch 1 line; wings 

 4f inches ; tarsi, 1 inch 5 lines. 



Young. Back ochreous black, with the feathers slightly 

 margined with white ; top of head and back of neck black, 

 shafts of the former somewhat prolonged and light fulvous; 

 cheeks and throat ash ; lower part of the neck before and 

 breast deep rufous ; beneath the body white, tinged with 

 rufous ; under tail-coverts plumbeous ; the quills brownish 

 black ; secondaries white-margined, tips brownish black ; 

 bill black and legs lead-coloured. 



Total length, 12j inches; bill, Ij- inch; wings, 4f inch- 

 es ; tarsi, 1 j inch. 



This species is very similar to P. poliocephalus of Aus- 

 tralia ; but the colours are more prominent, especially on 

 the back, where it is also tinged with green ; the buff of 

 the breast becomes in this species dark rufous. 



The adult specimen was procured by Mr. P. Earl at 

 Tairi, South Island, where it was called Totokipio. The 

 young of this species, when a few days old, are light grey 

 striped with black. 



Family Alcid.e. 



Subfamily, Spheniscinw. 



Spheniscus minor. 



Aptenodytes minor, G. Forst. Comm. Gotting.ui. p. 147. 

 Desc. Anim. p. 101. Icon. ined. 84, 85. 



Little Pinguiu, Lath. Syn. vi. 572, pi. 103. 



Upper surface pale blue, with olive down the centre of 

 each feather ; beneath the body silvery white ; the wings 

 black blue, margined inwardly with ochre-white. 



Length, 15 inches; bill from gape. If inch ; wings, 4^ 

 inches ; tarsi, 9 lines. 



" Habitat in insula australi Novae Zeelandiae in Portu 

 Obscuro, inter scopulos." Forster. 



