422 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Spiloglaux novseseelandise venatica (Peale). North Island 

 Morepork Owl, 

 Noctua venatica Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, 1848, 

 p. 75 : Bay of Islands, North Island. 



Synonym : — 



Ninox novazenhmdifB Buller, )Sappl. vol. ii. p. 61 (part.). 



Kange : — North Island (breeding). 



Genus SCELOGLAUX. 



Sceloglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 768. 

 Type (by monotypy) : S. albifacies (Gray). 



Sceloglaux alhifacies albifacies (Gray). South Island 

 Laughing Owl. 

 ' Athene albifacies Gray, Voy. ^Erebus ' and ' Terror,' 

 Birds, 1844, p. 2 : Waikouaiti, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Strix haastii Buller, Essay New Zeal. Orn. 1865, p. 7 : Canter- 

 bury, South Island. 



Athene ejidans Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. toI. iii. 1870, p. 63 : 

 new name for <S'. alhifacics. 



Sceloglaux albifacies Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 62. 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



Sceloglaux albifacies rufifacies (Buller). North Island 

 Laughing Owl. 

 Sceloglaux rufifacies Buller, Ibis, 1904, p. 639: Wairarapa, 

 North Island. 



Synonym : — 



Sceloglaux rujifacies Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 65. 



Range : — North Island (? extinct) . 



Order PSITTACIFORMES. 

 Family NESTOEID^g^. 

 Genus NESTOR. 

 Nestor Lesson, Traite d'Ornith. 1830, p. 190. 

 Type (by monotypy) : N, meridionalis (Gmelin). 



