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Mr. T. H. Potts, the greatest field-ornithologist New Zealand 

 has yet seen, and who always contended that there were 

 two species of Nesierax living together in New Zealand. 



Genus CERCIIXEIS. 



Cerchneis Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 970. 



Type (by monotypy) : C. rupicola (Lichtenstein). 



Cerchneis cenchroides cenchroides (Vigors & Horsfield). 

 Nankeen Kestrel. 



Falco cenchroides Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond. vol. XV. 1826, p. 183 : New South Wales. 



Synonyms : — 



Cerchneis I'mmacuIafAis Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. 1850, 



p. 27 : New South Wales. 

 Cerchneis cenchroides Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 60. 



Range :-^New Zealand (accidental visitor: two occurrences: 

 Waimatee, Canterbury, about 1889; Portland Island, North 

 Island, 6 April 1895) ; extralimital. 



Order STRIGIFORMES. 

 Family BUBONID.E. 

 Genus SPILOGLAUX. 

 Spiloglau.r Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 768. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : S. hoobook (Latham). 



Spiloglaux novaBseelandise novaeseelandiae (Gmelin). South 

 Island Morepork Owl. 

 Strix nov(Pseelandi(e Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1788, p. 296 : 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Strix fulva Latliam, Index Ornith. vol. i. 1790, p. 65: Queen 



Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 

 Noctua zelandica Qnoy & Gainiard, Voy. de I'AstroL, Zool. vol. i. 



1830, p. 168, pi. 2, fig. 1 : Tasman Bay, South Island. 

 'Ninox norcezeahmdice Buller, Suppl. vol, ii. p. 61 (part.). 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



