NESTORIU-E. 



Family I. NESTORID.E. 



Bill rather long, longer than deep ; cere partly covered with 

 hairy feathers ; tongue with a delicate fringe of hairs at the tip ; 

 tail-feathers with the shafts pointed and projecting beyond the 

 ■webs ; feathers soft, those at the base of the lower mandible pro- 

 jecting forward, and hairy ; tarsus rather long, like that of Strin- 

 yops ; orbital ring incomplete. 



Only one genus, confined to the New Zealaud subregion. 

 (Cf. Garrod, P. Z. 8. 1872, pp. 787-789.) 



1. NESTOR. ... 



type. 



Nestor (subgen.), Leas. Tr. d'Orn. p. 190 (1831) . . N. meridionalis. 



Nestor, Wagl. Mm. Psitt. p. 505 (1832) X. meridionalis. 



Centrourus, Siv. Class. B. ii. p. 303 (1837) N. meridionalis. 



Centrums, Strickl. Ann. fy May. X. H. vii. p. 34 



(1841). 



Ramie. New Zealand subregion. 



Key to the Species. 



A. No yellow band across the breast. 



a. Underparts olive-brown, with no red tinge 



whatever ; bill very long but not much 



curved nofabilis, p. 4. 



b. Abdomen and under tad-coverts tinged with 



red meridionalis, p. 5. 



B. A broad yellowish-white band across the breast, 



a. Bill not more than 2 inches long. 



a. Larger; fore neck aud upper breast hoary ; 



wing ll - 8 inches esslinyi, p. 8. 



b' . Smaller; fore neck and upper breast light 

 brown, with the feathers tinged with 

 yellow ; wing 10-3 inches productm, p. 9. 



b. Bill extremely long (3'8 inches) and curved 



in a semicircle norfolcensis, p. 10. 



1. Nestor notabilis. 



Nestor notabilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 94; id. B. Austr. Suppl. 

 pi. 60 (part iii., 1859) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 100 

 (1859); id. Ibis, 1862, p. 230; Haast, Verh. z.-b. Gesell. Wien, 

 1863, p. 116 ; id. Ibis, 1864, p. 341 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. 

 p. 554 (1865) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Gesell. Wien, 1867, p. 318 (note) ; 

 Finsch, town. f. Om. 1867, p. 322; id. Papay. ii. p. 898 

 (1868); Haast, Journ.f. Om. 1868, p. 242, 1870, p. 331 ; Bull. 

 Tr. S,- Pr. N. Zeal. Inst. iii. p. 52 (1870) ; Potts, ibid. p. 80 

 (1870) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 158, no. 8254 (1870); Hutt. 

 Cat. B. New Zeal. p. 20 (1871): Sclat. P.Z.S. 1872. p. 795 ; 



