A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. 449 



Note : — It would be interesting to know whether these 

 stragglers belong to the typical subspecies which inhabits 

 south Queensland and New South Wales^ or to C. c. tre- 

 gellasi (Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 1912^ p. 419 t 

 Victoria), the form living in Victoria and South Australia. 



Family ZOSTEROPID^. 

 Geuus ZOSTEROPS. 

 Zosterops Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Liun. Soc. Lond. 

 vol. XV. 1826, p. 234. 



Type (by monotypy) : Z. lateralis (Latham). 



Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews. Silver Eye. 



Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 

 1912, p. 385 : Tasmania. 



Synonym : — ■ 



Zosterops ccerulescens Bailer, Siippl. vol. ii. p. 149. [The type = 

 locality of Z. lateralis Latham, Index Oruith. Suppl. 1801, 

 p. Iv, is New South Wales.] 



Range: — Both Islands and the outlying groups (breeding). 



Note ; — The history of this bird seems to show that it 

 colonised New Zealand from the Australian continent, and 

 that it first appeared in the south of the South Island. 

 That this wovild appear to be true is evidenced by the fact 

 that the New Zealand birds seem referable to the Tasmanian 

 form and differ appreciably from the New South Wales 

 bird. 



Family MOTACILLIDiE. 

 Genus ANTIIUS. 

 Anthus Bechstein, Gemeiu. Naturg. Deutschl. vol. iii. 

 1807, p. 704. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : A. spinoletta (Linne). 



Anthus novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae (Gmeliu). South Island 

 Pipit. 

 Alnuda novaseelandice Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 799 : 

 Queen Charlotte^s Sound, South Island. 



