598 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



the fruit-bearing scrubs are most plentiful. I have often 

 seen them eating fuchsia-berries, and the Thrush at my house 

 cleared the place of spiders and could shell oats like a 

 Sparrow. 



"They are among the first birds to disappear before the 

 settlers, and are never plentiful even in the most suitable 

 and uninhabited places. I never found a nest of this 

 species. 



"They have peculiar ears. A purse of tender skin goes 

 down into the ear with no apparent hole in the skin. I 

 have never heard of such an efficient ear-protector in other 

 birds/' * 



103. Glaucopis cinerea Gmel. 



Glaucopis cinerea Buller, B. New Zeal. i. pt. i. p. 5, pi. i. 

 (1887) ; Lorenz-Liburnau, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii. p. 302 

 (1902). 



a. £ adult. Dusky Sound, South I., New Zealand, June 

 1901. 



b. Adult (in spirits) . Dusky Sound, South I., New Zealand, 

 June 1901. 



The Orange-wattled Crow has the iris, bill, and feet black 

 [R. Henry). 



Introduced Species. 



1. Turdus merula Linn. 



Merula merula Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 235 

 (1881). 



The Blackbird was seen on the Auckland Islands, and is 

 said to occur on Campbell Island. 



2. Tukdus musicus Linn. 



Turdus musicus Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 191 

 (1881). 



a. Adult. Snares, 2nd January, 1901. 



" A nest of the Song-Thrush containing three young 



* Iu this connection attention may be drawn to Mr. W. P. Pycraft's 

 paper on Acanthidositta. In this bird the ear opens into an extraordinary 

 pocket of skin. Of. infra, p. 607. 



