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croup, and upper tail-coverts bright-scarlet ; under-surface of 

 wings, sides of the body, abdomen, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts scarlet, mixed more or less with orpiment-orange ; 

 quills and tail-feathers greyish-white, the former toothed on 

 their inner webs with yellow and crimson, the latter with red. 



Carpophaga novae-zealandise, Gmelin. (New Zealand Pigeon.) 

 A partial albino from Martin's Bay has the breast metallic- 

 blue and green intermixed ; upper part of breast and small 

 upper wing-coverts rich vinous-brown ; back pale bluish-green 

 and grey ; scapulars largely marked with white ; upper-sur- 

 face of wings pale bluish-green and brown intermixed ; quills 

 margined and tipped with pale-brown ; tail-feathers brown, 

 tipped with brownish-white ; under tail-coverts dark-cream 

 colour. 



In the Hawke's Bay Museum there is an almost perfect 

 albino, the whole of the plumage being white, with the excep- 

 tion of a sprinkling of coppery-brown feathers on the head 

 and upper-surface of wings. In the Wanganui Museum there 

 is a peculiar example of partial albinism, already described by 

 Mr. Drew. This bird looks just as if it had been sitting out 

 in a fall of snow, the head, shoulders, and more -exposed 

 portions of the back being perfectly white, and presenting a 

 striking appearance. 



At Otaki I recently saw a perfectly tame one in the 

 possession of the Maoris. It would perch on the shoulder, 

 take food from the hand, and show in an unmistakable 

 manner that it was quite at home in the hut of which it was 

 allowed the freedom. 



Charadrius obscurus, Gmelin. (New Zealand Dottrel.) 



Mr. Marklund has sent me two skins of this well-known 

 species, in summer plumage, which he obtained on Table Hill, 

 on Stewart Island, at an elevation of 2,100ft. above the sea- 

 level, and at a distance of fully eight miles from the coast, 

 with heavy intervening bush-country. They were breeding 

 there, for he saw the unfledged young ones. 



Thinomis novsB-zealandise, Gmelin. (New Zealand Shore- 

 plover.) 



In a case of stuffed birds, at Invercargill, on the occasion 

 of a recent visit, I observed the young of the above rare 

 species, the specimen, as I was informed by the taxidermist, 

 having been obtained at the mouth of the Cargill Eiver. 



Haematopus longirostris, Vieill. (Pied Oyster-catcher.) 



Young of tlie First Year. — Differs from the adult in having 

 the white of the under-parts intermixed with the black in 



