206 Messrs. G. iM. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Apteryx owenii occidentalis Rothscliild. West Coast Kiwi. 



Apteryx occidentalis Rothscliild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 vol. i. 1893, p. Ixi : West Coast of South Island. 



Synonym : — 



Apteri/x occidentalis BuUer, Snppl. vol. i. p. 23. 



Range : — West Coast Ranges of South Island (breeding). 



Note : — It seems apparent that the forms of the Little Grey 

 Kiwi are not yet understood. Rothschild has admitted an 

 Alpine form living in the South Island of which the type, ac- 

 cording to Buller, was obtained at Dusky Sound, South Island. 



From not far away Potts described Apteryx mollis (Trans. 

 New Zeal. Inst. vol. v. 1873, p. 196), viz., Martin Bay, on 

 the west coast of the South Island. This was founded on 

 an albinistic form and has been referred to the synonymy of 

 A. oweni, but the measurements given seem to agree better 

 with Rothschild's A. occidentalis. Further, though various 

 records from the North Island are extant, it Avould seem 

 that if A. oivenii occurs at all in that island it will be in a 

 different form. At any rate, a bird supposed to have been 

 procured in the North Island was once called A. owenii and 

 a second time A. occidentalis. 



Much more work seems necessary before we can be said to 

 know all about the distribution of Apteryx. 



Subclass NEOGNATFLE. 

 Order GALLIFORMES. 

 Family MEGAPODID^. 

 Megapodius pritchardi Gray. 



Note: — In the 'Supplement,' vol. i. pp. 31-33, Buller 

 included Meyapodius jjritchardi Gray, and, moreover, gave a 

 coloured plate of the adult and chick. The grounds for 

 inclusion were that formerly a mound-building bird had in- 

 habited the crater of Sunday Island, one of the Kermadec 

 Group. TliC story was second-hand upon Cheeseman's 

 receipt of it (Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. xxiii. 1890, p. 219), 

 and consequently valueless from a scientific point of view. 



