574 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



westward of Blind Bay, in the wooded mountains between the 

 Motucha and Aorere valleys, this species is still found in 

 great numbers. During my stay in the province of Nelson I 

 had two living examples, a male and a female. They were 

 procured, by some natives I sent out for the purpose, in the 

 upper wooded valleys of the river State, a confluent of the 

 Aorere, in a country elevated from 2000 to 3000 feet above 

 the sea-level." — Nat. Hist. Bev., 1861, p. 505. 



I have characterized this new species under the name of 

 Apteryx owenii, feeling assured that it can only be considered 

 a just compliment to Professor Owen, who has so ably in- 

 vestigated the remains of the extinct birds of New Zealand. 



Face, head, and neck dull yellowish brown ; throat somewhat 

 paler ; all the upper surface transversely rayed with blackish 

 brown and fulvous, each individual feather being silvery 

 brown at the base, darker brown in the middle, then crossed 

 by a lunate mark of fulvous, to which succeeds an irregular 

 mark of black, and terminated with fulvous ; under surface 

 paler than the upper, caused by each feather being crossed 

 by three rays of fulvous instead of two, and more largely 

 tipped with that colour ; the feathers of the thighs resemble 

 those of the back ; bill dull yellowish horn-colour ; feet and 

 claws fleshy brown. 



Total length 18 inches; bill — gape to lip. 3f, breadth at 

 base 2i ; middle toe and nail 2 J ; tarsi 2J. 



ramHy HIMANTOPODID^. 



Sp. 21. HIMANTOPUS NOViE-ZELANDIiE, Gould. 



New Zealand Stilt. 

 Himantopus novce-zelandicE, Gould iu Proc. of Zool. Soc, part ix. p. 8. 



Himantopus Novae-Zelaudiae, Gould, Birds of Australia,fol.,vol.vi. 

 pi. 25. 



As might be expected, the colonization of New Zealand has 



