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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

  

  exact 
  dress 
  which 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  expected 
  to 
  characterize 
  

   the 
  young 
  of 
  C 
  dieffenbachii 
  ; 
  and 
  even 
  with 
  the 
  evidence 
  

   now 
  before 
  them 
  it 
  was 
  difficult 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  the 
  birds 
  

   were 
  fully 
  adult. 
  Count 
  Salvadori^s 
  opinion 
  (above^ 
  p. 
  255) 
  

   with 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  specimen 
  exhibited 
  at 
  the 
  third 
  meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  Club 
  had 
  now 
  been 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  correct 
  one. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  Canon 
  Tristram, 
  

   F.R.S., 
  entitled 
  ^^On 
  an 
  undescribed 
  Species 
  of 
  Snipe 
  from 
  the 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  region/' 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  author 
  made 
  the 
  following 
  

   remarks 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  In 
  1846 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  R. 
  Gray, 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Erebus 
  and 
  

   Terror/ 
  described 
  a 
  Snipe 
  from 
  the 
  Auckland 
  Islands 
  as 
  

   Gallinago 
  aucMandica. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  evidence 
  that 
  this 
  bird 
  

   has 
  ever 
  occurred 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  In 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis 
  ' 
  for 
  1869, 
  

   p. 
  41, 
  Sir 
  W. 
  Buller 
  described 
  a 
  second 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  

   Chatham 
  Islands 
  as 
  Gallinago 
  pusilla. 
  Very 
  few 
  specimens 
  

   have 
  been 
  received, 
  but 
  the 
  species 
  has 
  twice 
  been 
  obtained 
  in 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  (to 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  evidently 
  an 
  occasional 
  wanderer) 
  : 
  

   once 
  by 
  Sir 
  James 
  Hector 
  in 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Hauraki, 
  and 
  once 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  B. 
  Hill 
  on 
  Little 
  Barrier 
  Island. 
  All 
  doubts 
  as 
  to 
  

   its 
  being 
  a 
  distinct 
  species 
  have 
  recently 
  been 
  set 
  at 
  rest 
  by 
  

   the 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  specimens 
  obtained 
  in 
  the 
  Chatham 
  

   Islands 
  by 
  the 
  collectors 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  and 
  

   Mr. 
  H. 
  O. 
  Forbes. 
  I 
  have 
  examined 
  more 
  than 
  twenty 
  

   specimens, 
  and 
  find 
  that 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  agree 
  in 
  every 
  respect, 
  

   and 
  cannot 
  be 
  confused 
  with 
  the 
  Auckland 
  Island 
  species. 
  

   But 
  when 
  Sir 
  W. 
  Buller 
  published 
  his 
  second 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  

   ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand,' 
  he 
  had 
  unfortunately 
  sent 
  back 
  to 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  his 
  only 
  specimen 
  from 
  the 
  Chatham 
  Islands, 
  

   and 
  borrowed 
  from 
  me 
  a 
  sj)ecimen 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  obtained 
  

   by 
  Baron 
  A. 
  von 
  Hiigel 
  on 
  the 
  Snares, 
  seventy 
  miles 
  south 
  

   of 
  the 
  southern 
  extremity 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  This 
  I 
  had 
  put 
  

   down 
  as 
  Gallinago 
  pusilla, 
  having 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  never 
  seen 
  a 
  

   Chatham 
  Island 
  specimen. 
  It 
  is 
  very 
  accurately 
  figured 
  and 
  

   coloured 
  in 
  BuUer's 
  second 
  edition 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  proves 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  

   different 
  from 
  the 
  true 
  G. 
  pusilla. 
  The 
  only 
  other 
  example 
  

   in 
  existence, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  am 
  aware, 
  is 
  a 
  second 
  specimen 
  

   obtained 
  on 
  the 
  Snares 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  by 
  Baron 
  A. 
  von 
  

  

  