18 PREFACE 



avifauna will be completely lost. Mr. H. G. Ell, M.P.. has done 

 New Zealand a great service in urging that the forests should 

 be preserved and the birds protected, and all that he has asked 

 has been willingly done by Sir Joseph Ward and the members 

 of his Government. Naturalists in all parts of the world will 

 be grateful to them for setting up a Scenery Preservation 

 Commission, which went through the country and reported 

 upon sites that ought to be preserved, and also to Mr. S. Percy 

 Smith, chairman of the Commission, and Mr. W. W. Smith, the 

 secretary, and other meml)ers, for the enthusiasm with which 

 they undertook their congenial duties. 



In the second edition, "Pelorus Jack," the famous cetacean 

 that follows steamers through Pelorus Sound, was classified as a 

 goose-beak whale {Ziphius cavirostris) . As he has been 

 protected by the Legislature as a Risso's dolphin {Grampus 

 grisetts) , I have taken him out of the former species. As far 

 as is known, there is only one individual in New Zealand 

 waters. The Order-in-Council under which he is protected was 

 signed by His Excellency the Governor, Lord Plunket, on 

 September 26th, 190-4, and was published in the official 

 " Gazette." The order is issued under the Sea-fisheries Act of 

 1894, which empowers the Governor in Council to make regula- 

 tions protecting any fish. "Pelorus Jack " is protected for five 

 years from September 26th, 1904, and any person who interferes 

 with him is liable to be fined £100. 



It is with deep regret that I have prepared this edition 

 entirely without Captain Hutton's assistance. We spent many 

 hours of hard work in studying natural history sul).iects, 

 and I feel that if he had lived longer we would have 

 done more together. Many years of his life were devoted 

 to scientific research, for which he was splendidly equipped by 

 his powers of observation and judgment and his great industry. 



He was the second son of the Rev. H. F. Hutton, and was bom 

 at Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, on November 16th, 1836. He was 

 educated at Southwell and at the Naval Academy at Gosport. 

 As he was over age at the time of his nomination, he could not 

 enter the Royal Navy, l)ut he served for three years in the India 



