4 BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Young.—Above, dark brown, with a few white feathers on the back of 
the neck ; wing coverts tipped with buff, and and some of the breast 
feathers slightly margined with brown. 
i 0-72 WW. 450B., 2:25; T., 6. 
Egg.—Oval, white ; length, 1:15 ; breadth, °9. 
Both Islands, Norfolk Island, and Australia. 
7. *HALCYON CINNAMONIMUS. Swains. 
DeticatTe fawn color, with the back, wings, and tail blue green, and a 
narrow black collar on the neck. 
Ho elO 57 W.5.4 3B. 2°9: 
New Guinea, and the Ladrone Islands, 
UPUPIDA. Hooposs. 
Bill, long, curved, entire at the tip ; wings, long, rounded ; legs, strong ; 
hind toe, long. 
HETERALOCHA, Gray. 
Brit, acutely pointed ; fifth, sixth, and seventh quills equal, and longest ; 
tarsi, much longer than the middle toe ; hind toe about one half the 
length of the tarsus ; tongue, not extensile, furnished with fibrille for 
one-third of its length from the tip. 
New Zealand only. 
8. HETERALOCHA GOULDI. Gray. C.M. 
Huia. 
GREENISH black, with a band of white at the end of the tail; wattle, 
large, orange ; bill, white. 
Moke 1. 19-256 We 83, By 2:35 Ts, 32. 
Hemoe—la, 21:52 W., 83: B., 4:33 2,32. 
South part of the North Island. 
MELIPHAGIDA. Honey-EaTERSs. 
Bill, rather long, and curved ; nostrils covered by a membranous scale ; 
tongue, extensile, furnished at the tip with a bunch of filaments ; tarsi, 
rather short ; hind toe, long. 
AntHocHa&RA, Vig. and Horsf. 
Tarsi, as long as middle toe; fifth and sixth quills equal, and longest ; 
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