The Zoologist — May, 1874. 3979 



Pieris Daplidice. Polyommatus Alexis. 



„ Puapas. Trjxalis nasuta. 



Colias Edusa. Acridium tataricum. 



Hipparchia Megnera. (Edipoda Germanica 

 Coenonympha Pamphilus. (blue variety). 



The oldest tree extant of the "immemorial wood" cannot be 

 more than six hundred years, and by far the greater number are of 

 completely modern growth. A considerable revenue is produced 

 from the fir-cones of the forest, extending twenty-five miles in 

 length, and averaging from one to three in breadth. Several oaks, 

 moreover, are interspersed among its pines, while the undergrowth 

 is composed partly of scrubby juniper and pyracanthus, its bright 

 orange berries just ripe at the season of our visit. A variety of 

 lizards, partly brown, but more frequently green, coursed out of 

 the open into the thickets on our approach ; and green frogs also, 

 alarmed thereby, leaped from the mud banks into the pools. Not- 

 withstanding, the general aspect of the Pineta was completely 

 English, and its Flora likewise, inasmuch as, with the exception of 

 a yellow-flowering Carduus, it consisted of only British plants, 

 purple and blue scabious, wild Antirrhinum, Scilla autumualis, &c. 

 With its plantations, therefore, and occasional glades, it was no 

 dark and frowning forest that met our view; and as we traversed 

 the sandy regions, now embowered in wood, where formerly the 

 Roman fleet rode at anchor, it appeared no longer strange that, as 

 the soil was so similar to that of the Lido, the entomological Fauna 

 also should be so entirely alike in both localities, — the Lido — litlus, 

 — all of the later Empire and a bygone age. 



F. A. Walkeb. 



Notes ofi the Birds of New Zealand. 

 By T. H. Potts,' Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 39J=2.) 



Kiwi (Apteryx Oweni, Gould). — As far as we are aware, the 

 liabits of the straightbilled kiwi (also called the " gray kiwi," and 

 "blue-hen" of diggers) do not differ greatly from those of the rowi, 

 or, perhaps we might safely say, from those of other species of 

 Apteryx, due allowance being made for local influences. The long, 

 nearly straight bill of the kiwi is used in a similar manner to that 



