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subspecies, writing : " wliile admitting a certain amount of 

 individual variation, I am quite unable to accept these 

 distinctions as specific." But Lorenz's forms had only been 

 introduced as subspecies and as such should be accepted, 

 and A. auckiandicus is only rightly regarded as of that value. 

 Grant (Ibis, 1905, p. 592) lumped the Antipodes Island 

 and Auckland Island Pipits under the name of Anthus 

 steindachneri ! 



Family NEOMORPHID^. 

 Geuus NEOMOEPIIA. 

 Neomorpha Gould_, Synops. Birds Austr. 1837, pt. i. pi. ii. 

 Type (by monotypy) : A^. acutirostris Gould. 



Neomorpha acutirostris Gould. Huia. 

 Neomorpha acutirostris Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. 1837, 

 pt. i. pi. ii. : North Island. 



Synonyms : — • 



Neomorpha crassirostn's Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. 1837, pt. i. 



pi. ii. : name for male. 

 Neomorpha t/otddi Gray, List Genera Birds, 1841, p. 15 : new 



name only. 

 Heteralocha acutirostris BuUer, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 154. 



Eange : — North Island (breeding). ? Extinct. 



Family CEEADIONTIDJE. 

 Genus CREADION. 

 Creadion, Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Oruith. 1816, p. 34. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : C, carunculatus 

 (Gmelin). 



Creadion carunculatus (Gmelin). Saddle Back. 



Sturnus carunculatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 805: 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Creadion pharoides Vieillot, Nouv, Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. viii. 



1817, p. 390 : new name for preceding. 

 Icterus novcezealajidice Lesson & Garnot, Voy. Coqiiille, Zuol. 



1828, vol, i. p. 415 : Bay of Islands, North Island. 



