LIST OF SPECIES. 



The species illustrated in this volume are: 



Puffinus griseus Mutton bird. 



Pelecanoides urinatrix Diving Petrel Kuaka. Kuaka is 

 also in the North Island a name given to the Southern 

 Godwit Limosa Novae Zealandise. 



Prion Vittatus Broad-billed Petrel Parara or Parera. 

 The latter word is elsewhere applied to the Grey Duck 

 Anas Superciliosa. 



Prion turtur Dove Petrel Titi Wainui. 



Megalestris antarctica Sea Hawk. 



L'arus dominicanus Black-backed Gull. 



Miro albifrons South Island Robin In his History of the 

 Birds of New Zealand Buller gives us three species of 

 Robin Miro Australis Ncrth Island Robin Miro 

 Albifrons South Island Robin and Miro traversi 

 Chatham Island Robin. In his supplement published 

 many years later, he speaks of Miro Albifrons as one 

 South Island form, and of Miro Bulleri as another 

 the former "with underparts rufescent" the latter 

 "with almost the entire under-surface pale lemon 

 yellow." The species watched by me was neither 

 "rufescent" nor "pale lemon yellow" on breast or 

 belly. As, however, it could not have been the North 

 Island bird, nor the Chatham Island bird, nor another 

 doubtful species the Snares bird Miro Dannefordi 

 the photographs are those of Miro albifrons, possibly 

 slightly differentiated from the type. The fact is, that 

 there are in species endless minute variations, not only 

 in size and coloration, but throughout whole districts, 

 in degree of shyness, and, I believe, in singing notes. 



Megadyptes antipodum Yellow-eyed Penguin. 



Eudyptula minor Blue Penguin known in Stewart Island 

 as the Rock Hopper, a name elsewhere given to 

 Pygoscelis papua. 



Nestor meridionalis Kaka Brown parrot. 



Apteryx Australis Stewart Island Kiwi. 



