BIRDS. 195 



Fam. TETRAONID^. 



45. Coturnix Novce Zealandice. Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de 

 1'Astrol., Zool, i. 242, pi. 24, f. 1 ; Less. Compl. 

 Buff., vii. 459. 



" Seen by me once in the northern island, but is very scarce." 

 Dieffenbach. 



Fam. STRUT HI ON OXE, 



46. Apteryx Australia. Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 1057, 1058; 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. ; Gould's Birds of Australia, 

 pi. Dromiceius Novae Zealandiae. Less. Man., ii. 

 210. 



Kiwi or Kiwikiwi of the natives. Less., Dieffenbach. 

 " Its eggs are laid at the root of trees." Miss Stone. 

 " To this order probably belongs a bird, now extinct, called 

 Moa (or Movie) by the natives. The evidences are, a bone very 

 ittle fossilized, which was brought from New Zealand by Mr. 

 Rule to Mr. Gray, and by him sent to Professor Richard Owen. 

 (Proc. Zol. Soc., 1839. 169.) I possess drawings of similar 

 bones, and of what may possibly be a claw, which are in the 

 collection of the Rev. Richard Taylor in Waimate. They are 

 found on the east coast of the northern island of New Zealand, 

 and are brought down by rivulets from a neighbouring mountain 

 called Hikorangi." Dieffenbach. 



Fam. CHARADRIDJS. 



47. Charadrius xanthocheilus, Wagl. Syst. Av. sp. 36. 



Jard. and Selby's Illustr. of Orn., pi. 85. 

 Tuttiriwhatu of the natives. Miss Stone. Takahikaki 

 of the natives. Yate. Tuturuata of natives of Cook's 

 Straits. Dieffenbach. 



48. Charadrius obscurus. Gmel. Syst. Nat., 686 ; Lath. 



Ind. Orn., ii. 747 ; Wagl. Syst. Nat., sp. 35. Cha- 

 radrius glareola. Forst. Icon, ined., t. 122. 

 Ha-poho-era of the natives of Dusky Bay. Forst. Tu- 



turiwatu of the natives. Yate. 



To this order may also be referred two other birds spoken of by 

 Mr. Yate under the names of Pukunui, Pututo. 



49. Hiaticula Novce Seelandice. Charadrius torquatulus. 



Forst. Icon, ined., t. 121. Charadrius Novae See- 



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