On India n Deep- sea Dreihjing. 161 



Apteryx Ilaasti is " Roa-Roa " aii'l it is not known by the 

 Tiainc of " Kiwi." The name " Roa-Roa," liowevcr, is 

 aj)|)liccl to several sj)ecies of Apter//.v, and specially to Apteryx 

 maxima of Stewart Island. I would, however, again refer 

 Mr. Rothschild to Sir Walter Buller's second volume, p. 330, 

 where he will find that the native names for the South- Island 

 types in Christchurfh, N. Z., are both " Roa " and "Roa- 

 Roa " as well as " Kiwi Karuai." 



To the best of my knowledge Apteryx Ilaasti has hitherto 

 been found only in the South h land, and in that district alone 

 in which Ayteryx australis and A. Oweni both occur, which 

 so far seemed very significant. Its occurrence in the North 

 Island is to me a new and most interesting fact, and, if sub- 

 stantiated, would certainly go far to upsetting tiie opinion 

 I at present hold that Apteryx Ilaasti is a hybrid. Is 

 Mr. Rothschild c|uite certain of the localities of his specimens 

 and of tlie accuracy and bona fides of his collector? I shall 

 look forward with much interest to learn the actual localities 

 whence have come his specimens, also if the young specimens 

 of A. Ilaasti which Mr. Rothschild has had alive at Tring 

 were reared by him, or if he has had eggs from a pair of 

 these birds when confined by themselves. Does Apteryx 

 Ilaasti occur in the localities in which A. Bulleri { = A. Man- 

 telli) is found ? Or can Mr. Rothschild himself have mistaken 

 large west-coast specimens of A. Oweni for A. Ilaasti? 



Henry 0. Forbes. 



1 Philbeach Gardens, 

 Jan. 6, 1893. 



XXII. — Natural History Notes from II. M. Indian Marine 

 Survey Steamer ' Investigator,^ Commander R, F. Iloskyn, 

 EN., commanding. — Series II., No. 1. On the Results of 

 Deep-sea Dredging during the Season 1890-91. By j. 

 Wood-Mason, Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College 

 of Bengal, and A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon I.M.S., Sur- 

 geon-Naturalist to the Survey. 



[Continued from vol. ix. p. 370.] 



[Plates X. & XI.] 



Family Pasiphaidae. 



PASiPHAii, Savigny. 



52. Pasipha'e sivado (Risso) . 



Pasiphae sivado, Saviynt/i, et brevirostris, Milne-Edwards. I list, iiat, 

 des Crubt. vol. ii., 1837, p. i2^S, tt Atlas du lleg'ne Aniiu. du Cu^ ier. 



