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brown. Fed on leaves of forest-trees ; their legs were too long- 

 to allow them to eat off the ground. Bones full of marrow. 



" Kiwi Papa IVhenua. 7 feet high. One of the last birds to 

 disappear. There are still living men who have hunted it. 



" Tokoeka. 3 feet high. Bright red [!]. Inhabited only the 

 snowy mountains in the neighbourhood of Otago. 



" Po-waka-i. 10 feet high. Lived on carrion as well as 

 plants. Peculiar to the Middle Island. 



" Kiwi Mokemoke. 3 feet high. A solitary ash- coloured bird, 

 with a long curved bill. These are all the traditions of the pre- 

 ceding five birds to be relied on. It is highly probable that this 

 species and other smaller ones yet exist among the wild unex- 

 plored mountain-ranges of the Middle Island. 



" Great Apteryx (Kiwi Parure), Ajjteryx major. Inhabits 

 forests and mountains. A night bird. By imitating its call, it 

 is attracted, and then caught with dogs. It is also caught by 

 lighting a large fire, which is sure to attract them. Native report 

 says that this and the next-described species do not sit on their 

 eggs, but cover them up with leaves, the decomposition and 

 fermentation of which, at the expiration of one year, hatches the 

 egg. Probably this report is mere fiction, and the bird always 

 covers its egg on leaving the nest. This species lays only one 

 egg. Its legs are very powerful, sufficiently so as to break the 

 leg of a dog. The egg is white, and 3 inches in length. 



" Little Aptei-yw (Kiwi Hoihoi). Smaller than the preceding. 

 My dogs have caught this bird. Lays two eggs. Habits similar 

 to the preceding." — J. B. Ellman in ' Zoologist,' p. 7464 (1861). 



Since the publication of our last Number three members of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union have left our shores. Mr. 

 O. Salvin and Mr. F. D. Godman have departed, to continue 

 Mr. Salvin's researches in Guatemala, and thence intend to de- 

 scend along the Pacific coast to Panama, paying particular 

 attention to the fauna of Costa Bica. Mr. A. F. Sealy has pro- 

 ceeded to India, being about to become a permanent resident at 

 Madras. 



