TON ER Oye U Cur ON. 
Tus Catalogue has been prepared by direction of Dr. Hector, with the 
view of enabling naturalists in New Zealand to name correctly any bird 
whose habits they may have noticed, and so render their observations 
useful to science. It has been drawn up chiefly from the collection of 
birds purchased from Mr. Buller for the Colonial Museum, which contains 
type specimens of all his new species, except Gerygone assimilis and. 
Creadion cinereus ; but, in addition, I have examined all the public 
Museums in the Colony, and by these means have been able to see 
personally 143 out of the 160 species here described. 
To make it as complete as possible, a catalogue of the birds that 
have been introduced into the Colony has also been added. This has 
been compiled from the reports of the various Acclimatisation Socicties 
in New Zealand, and from personal visits to all their gardens. By far 
the greater part of the birds [ have myself seen, but the Jackdaw, Cuil 
Bunting, Reed Bunting, Bulltinch, Tree Sparrow, Red-pole, Diamond 
Sparrow, Zurnix varius, and three Pigeons, are included from descrip- 
tions only. 
The principal object of this part of the list 1s to enable country resi- 
dents to give us accounts of the diffusion of introduced birds in their 
districts, and, with this in view, I hope that the Secretaries of the 
Acclimatisation Societies will publish more complete and detailed accounts 
of the progress made in acclimatisation. 
Birds of doubtful authenticity as natives are marked with an asterisk 
(*), and a note of interrogation (?) is placed before those species which 
appear to me to be of doubtful value, and these doubtful species, in all 
cases, follow immediately after the one with which they will perhaps 
have to be united. 
Those species represented in the Colonial Museum are marked C.M., 
whilst O.M. means that the species described is in the Otago Museum, 
Cy.M. in the Canterbury Museum, A.M. in the Auckland Museum, and 
N.M. in the Nelson Museum. 
