On hidian Deep-sea Drechjing. 161 



Apteryx Ilaasti is " Roa-Roa " and it is not known by the 

 name of " Kiwi." The name " Roa-Roa," however, is 

 applied to several species of Apterijx^ and specially to Apterifx 

 maxima of Stewart Island, I would, however, again refer 

 Mr. Rothschild to Sir Walter Buller's second volume, p. 330, 

 where he will find that the native names for the South- Island 

 types in Christchurch, N. Z., are both " Roa " and " Roa- 

 Roa " as well as " Kiwi Karuai." 



To the best of my knowledge Apteryx Haasti has hitherto 

 been found ordy in the South Island^ and in that district alone 

 in which Apteryx australis and A. Oiveni both occur, which 

 so far seemed very significant. Its occurrence in the North 

 Island is to me a new and most interesting fact, and, if sub- 

 stantiated, would certainly go far to upsetting the opinion 

 I at present hold that Ai^eryx Haasti is a hybrid. Is 

 Mr. Rothschild quite certain of the localities of his specimens 

 and of the accuracy and bona fides of his collector? I shall 

 look forward witli much interest to learn the actual localities 

 whence have come his specimens, also if the young specimens 

 of A. Haasti which Mr. Rothschild has had alive at Tring 

 were reared by him, or if he has had eggs from a pair of 

 these birds when confined by themselves. Does Apteryx 

 Haasti occur in the localities in which A. Bulleri [ = A. Man- 

 telli) is found ? Or can Mr. Rothschild himself have mistaken 

 large west-coast specimens of A. Oweni for A. Haasti'^ 



HeNEY 0. FOKBES. 

 1 Pliilbeacb Gardens, 

 Jau. 6, 1893. 



XXII. — Natural History Notes from H.M^ Indian Marine 

 Survey Steamer ' Investigator,^ Commander R. F. Hoshyn^ 

 B.N., commanding. — Series II., No. 1. On the Results of 

 Deep-sea Dredging during the Season 1890-91. By J. 

 Wood-Mason, Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College 

 of Bengal, and A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon I.M.S., Sur- 

 geon-Naturalist to the Survey. 



[Continued from vol. ix. p. 370.] 



[Plates X. & XI.] 



Family Pasiphaidse. 



Pasiphae, Savigny. 



52. Pasiphae sivado (Risso) . 



Pasiphae sivndo, Saviynyi, et brevirostris, Milne-Edwards, Hist. iiat. 

 des Crust, vol. ii., 1837, p. 420, et Atlas du liegue Anini. de Cuvier. 



