422 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Pelzeln has been enabled to furnish us with a list of over twenty 

 species of birds, which formed part of the Avifauna of this little 

 speck in the earth's surface in the beginning of the present 

 century. Several of these have before now, in all probability, 

 entirely disappeared, so that information about them is doubly 

 welcome. 



The species indicated as found in Norfolk Island are the 

 following : — 



1. Astur appro ximans. (A.) 13. Leucosarcia picata. (A.) 



2. Climacte7'is scandens. (A.) 14!. Charadriusxanthocheilus. {A.) 



3. Zosterops tenuirostris. (N. Z.) 



4. albogularis. 15. Limosa baueri, sp. nov. 



5. Gerygone modesta, sp. nov. (N. Z.) 



6. Tardus poliocephalus. 16. Tetanus glottis. (A.) 



7. Rhipidura assimilis, sp.nov. 17. Notornis alba. 



8. PacJiycephala longirostris. 18. Anas superciliosa, (A.) 



9. Campephaga longicaudata. (N. Z.) 



10. Aplonis obscurus. (N. Z.) 19. Puffinus chlororhynchus. 



11. Nestor norfolcensis. 20. Procellaria atlantica. 



12. Hemiphaga spadicea. 21. Pha'ethon phcenicm'us. 



Of these twenty-one birds, the last three are oceanic species 

 which do not affect the character of the fauna. Of the eighteen 

 that remain, according to Herr von Pelzeln, nine are peculiar to 

 the island, as far as is hitherto known ; six (marked A. in our 

 list) are common to Australia ; four (marked N. Z.) also occur 

 in New Zealand, and Notornis alba is supposed to be (or rather 

 to have been) also found in Lord Howe's Island. With regard to 

 the Nestor, Herr von Pelzeln has shown why he is disposed to 

 regard this bird as having been diflferent from the Nestor pro- 

 ductus which inhabited the little adjoining island called ' Philip 

 Island/ The example supposed to have been of this species, 

 formerly in the Imperial Collection, is unfortunately missing, 

 and the only evidence available on the subject is that of Bauer's 

 drawing, which was taken from a living subject in Norfolk 

 Island on the 19th of January, 1805. 



Notornis alba is established on a specimen acquired at the 

 sale of the Leverian Collection, which was, without doubt, the 



