822 Transactions, —Zoology. 
With regard to the food of the species, in all my experience 1 have 
found H. nove-zealandie to subsist on larger game than H. brunnea. When 
the three young birds of H. nove-zealandie were two months old, I put a living 
weka into the cage. They were kept without food for one day to try their 
courage. The weka walked around the cage twice, when the female sprang 
upon it and seized it by the neck. I noticed that the hawk tried to bear 
down the weka by keeping on its back, but the weka succeeded in getting 
clear. This was repeated several times, and being then evening I left the 
four birds together in the cage. In the morning I found the weka killed, 
and the female and one male feeding on its remains. 
I tried the same experiment with the smaller species but they never 
made any attempt to kill the weka. 
I should have liked to add a few more experiments I made with the 
two species. I should also have liked to make a few remarks on the 
eggs, ete.; but I may have an opportunity of doing so on some other 
occasion, 
Art. XXV.—Notes on New Zealand Ichthyology. By Dr. Hector. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 13th February, 1884.) 
Lampris luna, Risso. 
Gunth., ii., 415. 
A spPECIMEN, measuring 8 feet 6 inches in length, of this superb fish was 
cast on the beach near the Manawatu River in December, 1882, and pre- 
sented to the Museum by Mr. James Jones, of Foxton. 
Unfortunately it had been partly eviscerated so that the chief characters 
which are relied on by the.Rev. Mr. Lowe (Fishes of Madeira, p. 27), for 
his species L. lauta could not be observed, viz., the absence of lingual 
teeth, having six instead of seven branchiostegal rays. 
Thyrsites prometheus, Webb and Berthel. 
vel T. prometheoides, Bleeker. 
Gunth., ii., 851. 
A single specimen of this fish was captured in September, 1883, along 
with the commoner species of barracoota, at Nelson, and presented to the 
Museum by Mr. J. H. Thomas. 
The specimen was slightly mutilated, so that there is a doubt as to 
which of the above species it should be referred to, 
