sTRrNGoriD.T. 590 



Family VI. STRINGOPIDiE. 



Sternum incomplete, with only a rudimentary keel; orbital ring 

 complete ; bill tbiek, swollen on the sides, with no notch ; under- 

 side of the hook provided with a file-like surface ; gonys rounded, 

 with five ridges and four grooves ; nostrils open in a cere, much 

 swollen. "Wing short and rounded ; fourth and fifth or even sixth 

 primaries the longest ; first nearly equal to the ninth. Tail short, 

 rounded, with the feathers acuminate. Tarsus rather long ; nails 

 moderately long and stretched. Feathers rather soft, those sur- 

 rounding the eyes disposed in a kind of circle, as in the Owls. 



Only one genus, confined to Xew Zealand. 



1. STRINGOPS. 



Type. 



Strigops, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 426 (1845) S. habroptilus. 



Strigopsis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 8 (1850). 

 Stringopsis, Van der Hoeven, Handb. d. Zool. ii. p. 692 



(1855). 

 Stringops, Finsch, Papay. i. p. 241 (1867). 



Range. Confined to New Zealand. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper surface sap-green ; larger habroptilus, p. 599. 



6. Upper surface bluish ; smaller U rei Jh P- 601. 



1. Stringops habroptilus. 



Centropus (?), G. R. Gr. App. Dieff. N. Zeal. p. 194 (note). 



Strigops habroptilus, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 427, pi. cv. (1845) ; 

 Strange, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 50 ; G. R. Gr. Ann. $• Mag. N. H. xx. 

 p. 55 (1847) ; id. P. Z. S. 1847, p. 62 ; Pucher. Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1847, p. 385 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 8 (1850) ; Lyall, P. Z. S. 1 852, 

 p. 31, pi. 46 (egg) ; Rchnb. Journ. f. Orn. 1853, Extraheft, p. 38 : 

 Bp. Rev. et Mai/, de Zool. 1854, p. 157, n. 316; Hartl. Journ. f. 

 Om. 1854. p. 256, 1855, p. 503; Gould, !>'. Austr. Suppl. pi. 57 

 (part ii., 1855); Bp. Naumatmia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 330; 

 SouancS, Rev. et Man. de Zool. 1856, p. 226; G. R. Gr. Ida Psitt. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 101 (1859); Ellin. Zool. 1861. p. 74r>7 : Haast. 

 Ibis, 1862, p. 1(13; G. R. Gr. Ibis. 1862, p. 230; Haast, Phil. 

 Inst Canterb. 1863,; id. Verb. z.-b. Gesell. JVien, 1863, p. 1115; 

 layard, Ibis, 1863, p. 245; Haast, Ibis, 1864, p. 340 ; id. Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1864, p. 458; Schhv- Diennt. p. 76, cum figura (1864); 

 Parker, P. /.. S. 1865, p. 235 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. App. 

 p. 5;js | 1S65) ; Trovers, Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. Botany, n. 35 (1865) 

 (Ibis, 1866, p. 114); Humbert (Haast), Bull. Soc. Om. Suisse, 

 1866, p. 69 ; Hector, N. Zeal. Exhib. 1866, p. 276 ; Pel:. Yerh. 



