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1 . Notornis mantelli *. 



Notornis mantelli, Owen, Trans. Z. S. iii, p. 377, pi. Ivi. figs. 7-11 

 (1848) ; Gould, Siippl. B. Austr. pi. 76 (ISol); Gray, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 2;i9; id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 65, no. 10491 (1871) ; Owen, Trans. Z. S. 

 vii. pp. .369-371, pi. xlii. fig-s. 5, 6. pi. xliii. fi<r. 9 (1871) • Bidler, B. 

 N. Zeal. -pi to p. 189 (1873); Pelz. Ibis, 1879, p. 376; Oivm, 

 P. Z. S. 1882, p. 97 ; Buller, Trans. N. Z. Inst. xiv. p. 238 (1882) ; 

 ParJcer, f. c. p. 245 ; A . Newt. P. Z. S. 1 882, p. i)7; A. B. Meyer, Ibis, 

 ]882, p. 607 ; Parker, Trans. N. Z. Inst, xviii. Art. x. p. 78 (1885) : 

 Buller, B. N. Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. pi. 32 (1888) ; Parker, Tr. N. Z. hist. 

 xxi. pp. 226-2.39 (1889) ; Lydekker, Cat. Fossil B. p. 157 (1891). 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, with a certain amount 

 of greyish-blue shading ; wings more decided!}" blue than the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externally purplish 

 blue ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers green, blackish 

 on the inner webs ; head and neck all round, throat and under 

 surface of body dark jjurplish blue, rather brighter where it skirts the 

 green of the back ; thighs somewhat blacker ; under tail-coverts 

 white : " frontal plate and bill bright red, yellowish towards the 

 tip of both mandibles ; tarsi and toes lighter red ; claws horn- 

 brown ; iris red" {W. L. Buller). Total length about 20 inches, 

 eulmei) 2>-2, wiiig 9, tail 4-2. tarsus 3-7, middle toe and claw 3-7. 



The second specimen, which has been usually supposed to be a 

 female, seems to me to be a young bird. It is decidedly smaller 

 than the adult, and is somewhat duller in colour. 



Hal). iS^ew Zealand. 



a. Ad. St. liesohitiou Island. Mantell Coll. 



b. Ad. St. Secretary Island. Mantell Coll. 



2. Notornis alba. 



^^'hite CalHnule, Callavi, Toy. Botany B. p. — (1783, teste Gray) ; 



PhiUips,, Toy. Botany Bay, p. 273, cum tig. (1789) ; Lath. Gen. Sipi. 



Suppl. ii. p. 327 (1790) ; Bennett, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 471. 

 Fulica alba, WMfe, Journ. Voy. N. S. W. p. 238, cum tab. (1790) ; 



Sahin, P. Z. >S. 1877, p. 95. 

 riallinula alha. Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 768 (1790). 

 Poi-phyrio albus, Tenun. Ma7i. d'Orn. ii. p. 701 (1820); Gray, Ibis, 



186^, p. 240. 

 Porpliyrio melanotus, var. alba. Gray, Toy. Ereb. Sf Terror, Birds, 



p. 19 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 598 (1845). 

 Notornis r alba, Pelz. Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xli. p. 328 (1860) ; 



Neivt. Ibis, 1866, p. 159, note ; Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 44. 

 Notornis alba, Salvin, Ibis, 1873, p. 295, pi. x. ; Etheridye, Lord 



Hoive Isl. pp. 1 1-13 (1889). 



Adult. Entirely white, with red bill and legs. 



Hah. Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Now extinct. 



* Dr. Meyer has pointed out that the type of N. mantelli was founded on 

 osseous remains froju the North Island, and he considers that the specimens 

 procured in the Sotdh Island will be found to be different from the true N. 

 mantelli. He has therefore proposed for it the name of Notornis hochstetteri. 

 Cf. Meyer, Abbild. Vogel-Skel. pis. 34-37 (1883); id. Zeitschr. ges.Orn. ii. p. 4.5, 

 pi. i. (i885). Mr. H. O. Forbes has also given the name of Notornis parkeri to 

 an extinct species frum the North Island. 



