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M'Lean, Bush-Birds of New Zealand. 



V Emu 

 List April 



has yet been declared harmful. With the exception of three or 

 four species, our bush-birds cannot exist in the scattered bushes 

 of our open country. There the undergrowth, so necessary to many 

 of our species, and'^to the bush itself, has been destroyed by stock, 

 and food is scarce through competition with the imported birds. 



Finally, let me advise anyone who wishes to see our birds to 

 visit the higher virgin bush. There, in the sheltered valleys, he 

 will surely find many of those recorded here, and, I hope, some, 

 if not all, of those which were not observed by me. 



CORRIGENDA PARTS 



Plate III. 



lor " HarpanovcB-hollandi(B" read " Harpa novcB-zealandicB." 



^^ ^ -r ^ -. ^^r-.^ " »-ml.-o iiT-i " QnrI " •niriiwfipl.-a '" rpaH " IVFaVa iiri " 



and " Pipiwhakau " respectively. 

 Page 9, line 6, for " Hungaroa " read " Hangaroa." 

 Page 14, line 31, for " noclura " read " noctua " 

 Page 72, line 42, for " See " read " See't." 

 Page 74, line i, for " Mauga-Haumia " read " Maiingf 



■Haiimia. 



Camp on Birch Ridge (birch and tawari trees), 3,000 feet above sea-level. 



