208 Oti Norfolk Island, 



Phillip Island, however, hogs, goats, and rahbits are to be 

 found. 



A greater number and variety of the feathered tribes 

 inhabit this lonely group, or visit it during the breeding 

 season. The guinea-fowl was observed by the early naviga- 

 tors, but has now become quite extinct. There are three 

 kinds of Parrot on Norfolk Island. The small crimson and 

 blue Lory, the Psittacus Pennantii, one green with a red 

 ring round the base of the beak, and another. These birds 

 are easily entrapped. A dingy-plumaged Kingfisher, bold 

 and fierce, is very common, and passes under the name of the 

 Norfolker. The domestic pigeon has been naturalized, and 

 breeds abundantly among the clifi's. Its numbers would be 

 troublesome but for the ravages of the wild cat. A large 

 and handsome species of pigeon, called the Wood-quest, with 

 bronzed head and breast, is met with occasionally round the 

 base of Mount Pitt, but has hitherto resisted all efi"orts at 

 domestication. In addition, there is a variety of the black- 

 bird, (so called), a robin, with a white head and scarlet 

 breast, guava birds, white-eyes, and fan-tails. These last- 

 named small birds are met with in the gullies, and are so 

 tame as to perch upon the finger or a stick if held towards 

 them. One specimen of the Avocet, the Rectirvirostra 

 rub7'icollis, was shot upon the island about a year and a half 

 since, and sent up to this Society by Dr. Hueston ; as well as 

 a male and female spoon-bill, the head and feet of which are 

 now laid upon the table. 



Ocean-birds in great abundance surround the shore. 

 Formerly, their head- quarters were at Mount Pitt, but since 

 Norfolk Island has been inhabited, they have removed to the 

 smaller isles. Nepean swarms with gannets and mutton- 

 birds, while boatswain or tropic-birds and sea-swallows in- 

 habit the rocks to the north. 



