LIST OF SPECIES. 



The species illustrated in this volume are: — 



Puffinus griseus — IMutton bird. 



Pelecanoides urinatrix — Diving Petrel — Kuaka. Kuaka is 

 also in the North Island a name given to the Southern 

 Godwit — Limosa Novae Zealandiffi. 



Prion Vittatus — Broad-billed Petrel — Parara or Parera. 

 The latter word is elsewhere applied to the Grey Duck 

 — Anas Superciliosa. 



Prion turtur — Dove Petrel — Titi Wainui. 



Megalestris antarctica — Sea Hawk. 



Larus dominicanus — Black-backed Gull. 



Miro albifrons — South Island Robin — In his History of the 

 Birds of New Zealand Buller gives us three species of 

 Robin — ]\riro Australis— North Island Robin — IMiro 

 Albifrons — South Island Ri.bin — ^and ]\Iiro traversi — 

 Chatham Island Robin. In his supplement published 

 many years later, he f peaks of ]Miro Albifrons as one 

 South Island form, and of Miro BuUeri as another^ 

 the ffrmer "with underparts rufescent" — the latter 

 "with almost the entire under-surface pale lemon 

 yellow." The species watched by me w^as neither 

 "rufescent" nor "pale lemon yellow^" on breast or 

 belly. As, however, it could not have been the North 

 Island bird, nor the Chatham Island bird, nor another 

 doubtful species — the Snnres bird — Miro Dannefordi — 

 the photographs are those of Miro albifrons, possibly 

 slightly differentiated from the type. The fact is, that 

 there are in species endless minute variations, not only 

 in size and coloration, but throughout whole districts, 

 in degree of shyness, and, I believe, in singing notes. 



Megadyptes antipodum — Yellow-eyed Penguin. 



Eudyptida minor — Blue Penguin known in Stewart Island 

 as the Rock Hopper, a name elsewhere given to 

 Pygoseelis papua. 



Nestor meridionalis — Kaka — Brown parrot. 



Apteryx Australis — Stewart Island Kiwi. 



