﻿Ornithologists' 
  Club. 
  575 
  

  

  This 
  I 
  believe 
  to 
  be 
  entirely 
  erroneous, 
  because, 
  altliougb 
  at 
  

   Okarita, 
  wbere 
  the 
  original 
  specimens 
  of 
  A. 
  haasti 
  were 
  

   obtained, 
  A. 
  australis 
  and 
  A. 
  oweni 
  were 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  found, 
  

   the 
  localities 
  whence 
  I 
  have 
  obtained 
  A. 
  haasti 
  in 
  some 
  

   numbers 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years 
  are 
  quite 
  uninhabited 
  by 
  

   the 
  other 
  species. 
  A. 
  haasti 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  inhabits 
  the 
  

   crater-like 
  valleys 
  between 
  the 
  highlands 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  and 
  

   central 
  mountain-chains 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  Island; 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  

   found 
  in 
  isolated 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  King-country 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  

   Island. 
  

  

  ^'Apteryw 
  australis 
  was 
  formerly 
  abundant 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  lower 
  

   scrub-covered 
  districts 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  Island, 
  but 
  is 
  now 
  almost 
  

   exclusively 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  Dusky-Bay 
  region. 
  

  

  ^'Apteryx 
  maximus 
  is 
  almost 
  a 
  fictitious 
  species, 
  though 
  I 
  am 
  

   inclined 
  to 
  agree 
  with 
  Prof. 
  Hutton 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  only 
  an 
  over- 
  

   grown 
  A. 
  haasti. 
  The 
  name 
  was 
  published 
  originally, 
  without 
  

   a 
  description, 
  by 
  Bonaparte 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Comptes 
  Bendus,' 
  xliii. 
  

   p. 
  841, 
  taken 
  from 
  an 
  unpublished 
  manuscript 
  of 
  Jules 
  Ver- 
  

   reaux, 
  and 
  then 
  Prof. 
  Hutton 
  described 
  a 
  foot 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  

   of 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand' 
  and 
  ascribed 
  it 
  to 
  this 
  species. 
  

   Both 
  references, 
  however, 
  distinctly 
  refer 
  to 
  a 
  bird 
  from 
  the 
  

   South 
  Island. 
  In 
  1890, 
  Sir 
  Walter 
  Buller 
  finally 
  announced 
  

   that 
  he 
  had 
  discovered 
  the 
  true 
  A. 
  maximus 
  on 
  Stewart 
  

   Island, 
  and 
  I 
  am 
  fortunate 
  in 
  possessing 
  the 
  entire 
  series 
  

   from 
  his 
  collection 
  ; 
  but 
  I 
  most 
  emphatically 
  say 
  that 
  this 
  

   species 
  cannot 
  be 
  A. 
  maximus 
  of 
  Verreaux, 
  and 
  therefore 
  I 
  

   have 
  much 
  pleasure 
  in 
  naming 
  it 
  Apteryx 
  lawryi, 
  after 
  

   Sir 
  W. 
  LawTy 
  Buller. 
  

  

  " 
  Sir 
  W. 
  Buller 
  fully 
  described 
  this 
  bird 
  before 
  the 
  Welling- 
  

   ton 
  Scientific 
  Society. 
  All 
  that 
  I 
  shall 
  add 
  is, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  

   though 
  the 
  differences 
  between 
  it 
  and 
  A, 
  australis 
  are 
  very 
  

   slight, 
  they 
  are 
  apparently 
  constant, 
  owing, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  to 
  the 
  

   isolation 
  of 
  the 
  species. 
  

  

  " 
  Apteryx 
  oweni 
  is 
  found 
  exclusively 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  of 
  

   the 
  South 
  Island, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  nothing 
  particular 
  to 
  be 
  said 
  

   regarding 
  this 
  species. 
  

  

  '' 
  On 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  and 
  North 
  Islands, 
  from 
  

   one 
  end 
  to 
  the 
  other, 
  occurs, 
  however, 
  a 
  grey 
  Apteryx, 
  which 
  

  

  