APPENDIX; NOS. XLI.—XLII. a 
interest themselves to procure, by Act of Parliament or otherwise, 
protection for sea-fowl at those places, or at that time of year 
when they throw themselves entirely upon the mercy of mankind, 
for by such protection alone can their sure and speedy extirpation 
be averted; and one of the best kind of beacons, the flight and the 
clamour of birds; be preserved, to warn vessels in foggy weather of 
their approach to the dangerous headlands of our coast. There are 
several lighthouses at which the value of the sea-fowl is properly 
“appreciated ; and these, with the Bass Rock and Ailsa Crag, afford 
happy exceptions to the general rule, and show what may be done. 
The numbers are not seriously lessened by legitimate bird-catchers 
any more than in the case of Poultry in a farm yard. 
‘XLIT. 
On rue Hasits or tHE Kiwi-kiwi (Apreryx Mayrectr, 
BARTLETT), WITH A MENTION OF Ocypromus. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ x. (1852) pp. 3409-3424. | 
Tue actions of animals can only be fully pictured to the imaginations 
of those who have seen and studied them alive. But persons who 
have had this advantage, may be able to communicate to others a 
tolerably good idea of an animal, provided that both parties are 
familiar with other animals which may afford points of comparison ; 
so many are the analogies which occur amongst the different species of 
living beings. The task will be rendered far easier if those who read 
the description have also met with other accounts of .the same 
animal, written by observers of a different turn of mind, from separate 
points of view, and with varied modes of illustration. 
That such facilities for acquiring a knowledge of the manifestations 
of life afforded by so interesting a bird as the Kiwi-kiwi, may be 
accessible to naturalists who will never have an opportunity of seeing 
it alive, and especially to those who may live after the last Apteryx 
has been extinguished from the face of the earth, it seems particularly 
desirable that many persons should take the present, perhaps the 
only, opportunity of recording their impressions of a living bird, 
nothing doubting that, however poor their descriptions, and 
notwithstanding that better ones may be written by more able men, 
their own may nevertheless be hereafter found to contain some 
useful suggestions, or to throw a light upon something otherwise 
imperfectly understood. 
These were the feelings which induced me to prepare the present 
contribution for the pages of the ‘ Zoologist,’ that valuable periodical 
which is destined to rescue so many facts and observations from 
oblivion, and which considers no original communications beneath 
its notice, however humble their pretensions may be. I shall take 
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