A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. 419 



Family PELECANID.E. 

 Genus PELECANUS. 



Pelecanus Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 132. 

 Type (by tautouyniy): P. onocrotalus Liniie. 



Pelecanus conspicillatus conspicillatus Temmiuck. Eastern 

 Australian Pelican. 



Pelecanus conspicillatus Temrainck & Langier, Planch. 

 Color. d'Ois. -17'' livr. 18.24, pi. 276 : New Sonth Wales. 



Synonyms : — 



Pelecajius australis Steplieiis in Shaw's Geu. Zool. vol. xiii. 1826, 



p. 113: New South Wales. 

 Pelecanus conspicillatus Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 53. 



Range: — New Zealand (accidental visitor : one occnrrence, 

 AVanganui River, North Island^ 1890); extralimital. 



Order ACCIPITRIFORMES. 



Family FALCONID.E. 



Genus CIRCUS. 



Circus Lacepede, Tablean Oiseanx, 1799, p. 4. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : C. (sruginosus (Linne). 



Circus approximans drummondi^ subsp. n. New Zealand — i.^. 



E[arrier. 



Synonym : — 



Circus cjouldi Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 54. [The type-locality 

 of Circus approximans Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. 1848, p. 64, is 

 Fiji Islands, and of Circus gouldi Bonaparte, Cousp. Geu. 

 Av. vol. i. 1850, p. 34, is New South Wales.] 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding) . 



Note : — Circus approximans drummondi is separable from 

 C. a. approd'imans by its larger size, and from C. a. gouldi 

 by its smaller size and darker coloration. Wing less 

 than 398 mm. 



