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Nestor meridionalis meridionalis (Gmelin). South Island 

 Kaka Parrot. 

 Psittacus meridionalis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1788_, p. 333 : 

 Dusky Sound, South Island. 

 Synonyms : — 



Psittacus nestor Latham, Index Ornith, vol. i. 1790, p. 110 : same 



locality. 

 Psittacus australis Shaw, Museum Lever. 1792, p. 87 : same 



locality. 

 Nestor novcezelandics Lesson, Traite d'Ornith. 1830, p. 191 : same 



locality. 

 Nestor hypopolius Wagler, Abhandl. Akad. Wissen. Miinch. vol. i. 



1832, pp. 505, 696 : same locality. 

 Nestor esslimjii Sounuce, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 223 : loc. ? 



(probably Marlborough District, South Island). 

 Nestor superbus BuUer, Essay New Zeal. Ornith. 1865, p. 11 : 



Alpine districts, South Island. 

 Nestor montanus Fiusch, Papageien, vol. ii. 1868, p. 961 : Alpine 



heights of South Island. 

 Nestor occidentalis Buller, Ibis, 1869, p. 40: not far from Dusky 



Sound, South Island. 

 Nestor oneridionalis Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 69. 

 Nestor esslint/i id. ib. p. 77. 

 Range: — South Island (breeding). 



Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis Lorenz. North Island: 

 Kaka Parrot. 



Nestor septentrionalis Lorenz, Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges.- 

 Wien, 1896, p. 198 : North Island. 



Range : — North Island (breeding). 



Note : — The forms of Nestor meridionalis would provide- 

 an interesting study were localised series ever available. 

 Much variation has been observed by every writer^ but no 

 attempt has been made to account for it in a scientific 

 manner. It will be noticed that the Alpine districts of the 

 South Island have provided most of the forms, the point of 

 interest being that the type-locality of Nestor meridionalis 

 was never fixed. Buller noted that N. montanus was larger 

 and seemed very distinct, but overlooked the fact that it was 

 practically the typical bird, and that the other bird (the 

 North-Island form) needed the new name. Lorenz pointed 



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