360 MR. J. E. HARTING ON ANARHYNCHUS FRONTALIS. [May 27, 
markings as their parents, which fully proves that LZ. basalis cannot 
be the young of L. plagosus. 
A young bird of L. plagosus now before me, shot in September 
and supposed to have been hatched in June, distinctly shows the 
wavy bands on the chest, breast, and flanks, also the rufous blotches, 
to the same extent as the adult, on the second and third outer tail- 
feathers on either side. 
The accompanying coloured drawings represent the eggs of the 
various Cuckoos found in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and the 
eges of their most usual foster-parents, as spoken of in my former 
paper. They are all taken from fresh specimens. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. 
Fig. l. Egg of Lamprococcyx plagosus. | Fig. i Egg of Acanthiza nana. 
uh - basalis. »  Geobasileus reguloides. 
3. 4, Cuculus inornatus. . »  Smicrornis brevirostris. 
4: fF cineraceus. 10. ,, = St¢piturus malacurus. 
5. 4, Acanthiza lineata. | ll. = ,,. = Chthonicola minima. 
6. > —— pusilla. 12. 4, ~~ Ptilotis auricomis. 
May 27, 1869. 
W. H. Flower, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S., exhibited a skin of a rare wading bird, 
Anarhynchus frontalis, from New Zealand, together with three bills 
of the same species which had been saved from birds eaten by the 
natives, and remitted through the kindness of M. Jules Verreaux. 
He remarked that the chief peculiarity in this bird lay in the form 
of the bill, which was curved, not downwards as in Numenius, nor 
upwards as in Recurvirostra, but to one side, and that he had good 
grounds for believing that this peculiarity was constant. He had 
seen six examples of the bird, and had heard of others, in all of 
which the bill was curved as described. He had no doubt, from its 
general appearance, that its habits resembled those of Strepsilas, 
although it differed in other respects from the only two species 
known of this genus. He believed that its nearest ally would be 
found in another New-Zealand bird, Thinornis nove zealandia, of 
which genus Thinornis another species, Thinornis rossii, had been 
found in the Auckland Islands. The bird now exhibited had been 
described so long ago as 1830 by MM. Quoy and Gaimard in their 
zoology of the ‘ Voyage de l’Astrolabe’ (i. p. 252, pl. 31. fig. 2), 
and had since been noticed by Mr. G. R. Gray, in ‘ Dieffenbach’s 
Travels in New Zealand’ (ii. p. 196), in the ‘ Voyage of the Erebus 
and Terror’ (Birds, p. 12), and in ‘The Ibis’ (1862, p. 234). 
Mr. Harting proposed at some future time to offer some further 
remarks on this curious bird. 
