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XEW ZEALAND BIRDS. 





wattle, unicolor, varjiug from briglil blue to purple; in the female, the back, wings, and 

 tail are brownish-olive, and the wattle is smaller tlian in the male. 



L., 13-25 ; W., 6 ; B., O ; T., 2-24. 



The female is lai'ger than the male. 



Sab. — North Island. 



" This singular representative of tlie Crow family is sparingly 

 dispersed over the North Island^ being very loeal in its distrilnition. 

 It is met Avith more frequently in the wooded hills than in the low 

 timbered bottoms, but its range is too eccentric to be defined with 

 any precision. During many years' residence at Kaipara, north of 

 Auckland, I never obtained more than five specimens, all of which 

 were shot in the low-wooded spurs of the Tangihua ranges. In par- 

 ticular localities, however, even further north, it is comparatively 

 plentiful : for example, between the headwaters of the Wairoa and 

 Whangarei Rivers there are several strips of forest in which I never 

 failed to meet with the Kokako ; and in the Kaitara Ilangcs, in the 

 Whangarei district, it was, till within the last few years, rather 

 abundant 



"The notes of the male are loud and varied; but the most notice- 

 able one is a long-drawn organ-note of surpassing depth and i-ich- 

 ness." — BuLLER. 



38. Glaucopis cinerea. Gml. 



Oeaxoe-wattied Crow. 

 (Plate XII.) 

 Similar in colour to the last, except that the (ail is onlj blacliish at the tip; wattle, 

 bicolor, point of attachment blue, the rest red or orange. 

 L., 13-5 ; W., G-25 ; B., 1 ; T., 2-5. 

 Female. — Rather larger than the male. 

 Hah. — South Island. 



" This species is the South Island representative of Glaucopis 

 wilsoni, to which it bears a general resemblance, except in the colour 

 of its Avattles and its rather smaller size. Like the North Island 

 species, also, its distribution is very irregular : thus, in Otago, Dr. 

 Hector found it very plentiful on Mount Cargill and in a strip of bush 



