201 Messrs. G. M. ^latliews and Tom Ircdale : 



Class AVES. 



Subclass PALiEOGNATH^. 



Order APTERYGIFORMES. 



Family APTEliYGID.*:. 



Genus APTERYX. 



Apteryx Shaw & Nodder, Nat. JNIiscellany, vol. xxiv. 

 1813, pi. 1057. 

 Type (by mouotypy) : A. cmstralis Shaw & Nodder. 



Apteryx australis australis Shaw & Nodder. South Islaud 

 Kiwi. 

 Apteryx australis Shaw & Nodder, Nat. Miscell. vol. xxiv. 

 1813, pi. 1057 : Dusky Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Dromiceitisnov(ezealandiceljeiis,on,lsiii\\\.ie\ d'Ornitli. vol. ii. 1828, 



p. 210 : same locality. 

 ? Apteryx fusca Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. v. 1873, p. 196, 



nora. nud. 

 Apteryx australis Buller, Siippl. vol. i. p. 11. 



Range : — South Island (breeding) . 



Apteryx australis mantelli Bartlett. North Island Kiwi. 



Apteryx mantelli Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1850, 

 1852, p. 275 : North Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Ajiteryx buUcri Sliarpe, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. xxi. 1889, 



p. 224 : North Island. 

 Aj)teryx mantelli BuUer, Snppl. vol. i. p. 12. 

 Apteryx bulleri id. ibid. p. 17. 



Range: — North Island (breeding). 



Note: — BuUer retained two forms of Apteryx australis 

 as occurring in the North Island, and wrote: ''The name of 

 Apteryx bulleri seems to me more convenient than the 

 alternative trinomial one of Apteryx australis bulleri," 



