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much attached to Ornithology, as his Hberal donations to the 

 Norwich Museum abundantly testify. Both these specimens 

 were collected on the middle and south islands of New 

 Zealand : that in the British Museum is the original of Mr. 

 G. R. Gray's Athene albifacies and the type of Dr. Kaup's 

 genus Sccloglaiix. 



The full-sized figure of this bird in the folio edition may 

 be the means of making it more generally known ; I trust 

 that the attention of travellers will be directed to the species, 

 and that ere long we may be furnished with some account 

 of its habits and economy, of which, at present, nothing is 

 known. 



Mr. Percy Earl, who obtained at Waikonaiti, in the south 

 island of New Zealand, the specimen in the British Museum, 

 states that it is known to the natives by the name of Wekau. 



Plumage of the upper surface chocolate-brown, each fea- 

 ther margined with fulvous ; some of the scapularies with a 

 lengthened mark of dull white within the margin and others 

 on the edge ; primaries spotted along the outer margin with 

 buffy white ; secondaries and tertiaries crossed by indistinct 

 or interrupted bars of buffy white, assuming on those near the 

 body the form of spots ; spurious wing very dark brown ; 

 tail brown, crossed by five narrow irregular bars of buffy 

 white and tipped with fulvous ; fascial disk pale sandy- 

 brown, except on the forehead, throat, and ear-coverts, which 

 are whitish, each feather with a streak of brownish-black 

 down the centre ; feathers of the under surface deep fulvous, 

 with a broad mark of dark brown down the centre of each, 

 the former tint increasing on the lower part of the abdomen 

 and thighs, when it again gradually fades into dull white on 

 the lower part of the tarsi ; toes sickly-green, thinly beset 

 with hair-like feathers ; cere much developed and of a lead 

 colour ; bill bluish horn-colour at the base, passing into yel- 

 lowish horn-colour at the tip, the under mandible yellow. 



