196 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



landise. Gmel. Syst. Nat., 684. Charadrius Novae 

 Zealandiae. Lath. Ind., ii. 745. 



Doodooroo-attoo of the natives of Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound. For st. 



50. Anarynchus frontalis. Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de 



1'Astrol., Zool., 1252, pi. 31, f. 2; Less. Compl. 

 BuflF., ix. 427. 



51. Hcematopus picatus, Vigors' s King's Voy. Coast of 



Austr. ii. 420. Haematopus Australasianus. Gould, 

 Desc. of New Sp. of Austr. Birds, p. 6. 

 Scarcely different from this species, and very common in New 

 Zealand. 



Toria of the natives. Diejfenbach. 



Fam. ARDEID.E. 



52. Botaurus melanotus. Ardea (Botaurus) Australis. 



Cuv.; Less.Tr. d.'Orn., 572? 



Blackish brown on the back, with some of the feathers and 

 wings reticulated with yellowish white ; head, neck, quills, secon- 

 daries and tail dirty brown; sides of head, throat, and streaks down 

 some of the feathers and beneath the body yellowish white, the two 

 latter with blackish -brown streaks, more or less perfect, down 

 several of the feathers. Young, blackish brown, reticulated all 

 over with yellowish white, like the common bittern. 



Total length, 2 feet 2 inch.; bill, 3 inch.; wings, 12J; tarsi, 3|. 

 Matukuof the natives. From a specimen found on the 

 Hokianga River. Miss R. Slone. Dieffenbach. Ma- 

 tuku urepo of the natives, or Crane of Yate. Also 

 found on the Murray, South Australia. Mr. Fort- 

 nvm. 



53. Herodias Matook. Ardea jugularis. Forst., Icon. 



ined., t. 114; Wagl., Syst. Av., sp. 18. Ardea 

 caerulea, var. 7. Gmel. Syst. Nat., 631. Ardea ma- 

 took. Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat, xiv. 416; id., 

 Ency. Meth., 1118. 



Matook of the natives of Queen Charlotte's Sound. 

 Forst. Matou cou of the natives. Less. 



Fam. SCOLOPACID^E. 



54. Himantopnx Novce Zecdandice. Gould, Proc. Zool. 



