200 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



as well as their bases, white; oblong spot below each eye; wing- 

 coverts, secondaries, and quills brownish black, with the basal 

 portion of the inner webs of the two last, white ; the front, cheeks, 

 under wing- coverts, and the whole of the under part, white. Bill 

 black ; tarsi and knee brownish yellow ; feet black, with the inter- 

 mediate webs yellow. Total length 12j inches : bill, length 1 inch 

 7 lines, depth in middle, 3^ lines ; wings 9J inches ; tarsi 1 inch 

 2 lines. 



The wings project above an inch beyond the tail, like the one 

 represented by Parkinson in the above-mentioned ' Icones,' but the 

 bill is longer and more slender. 



Titi of the natives. Dieffenbach. 



71. Prion mttatus, Cuv. Procellaria vittatus. GmeL, 



Syst. Nat., 560. Procellaria Forsteri. Lath., Ind. 

 Orn., ii. 827. Procellaria latirostris. Bonn, Ency. 

 Meth. Pachyptila vittata. Illig., Prod. 274. Pa- 

 chyptila Forsteri. Stcph., Shaw, Zool., xiii. 251. 



72. Diomedca exulans, Linn., Lath. Ind. Orn., ii. 789. 



" Not immediately near the shores, which, however, they also 

 visit, but in the New Zealand seas, exist several kinds of alba- 

 trosses, which the natives call Toroa." Dieffenbach. 

 Fam. LARIDJE. 



73. Lestris antarcticus. Less., Tr. d'Orn., 616; id. 



Compl. Buff., ix. 511. Lestris cataractes. Quoy et 

 Gaim. Voy. de 1'Uranie, pi. 3S. 



74. Larus fuscus. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 225. Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. ii. 815. 



75. Larus scopulinus. Forst., Icon, ined., t. 109. 

 He-Talle of the natives of New Zealand. Forst. 



M. Lesson speaks of a species under the native name of Aki- 

 aki. 



76. Sterna striata. Gmel. Syst. Nat., 609. Lath'. Syn. 



vi. 358, t. 98. 



Fam. PELKCANID^. 



77. Sula australis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1840, 177. 



Pelecanus serrator, Banks, Icon, ined., t. 30. 

 Tara of the natives of Queen Charlotte's Sound. 

 Dieffenbach. 



