Nos. 2 & 3.] THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 49 



A NAME-LIST OF THE BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



By Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale. 



We provided in the Ibis for 1913 a Reference List, and in that 

 List we rejected the Brissonian genera ; those genera have 

 since been recognised as vahd by the International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature. We utilise them here, though 

 pointing out that their recognition has recently been again 

 questioned. In that List also the classification was arranged 

 according to Sharpe's Hand List, and we now take the oppor- 

 tunity of correcting the former effort, while rearranging the 

 groups in accordance with our preceding essay. 



We have included all the visiting species, as there is a lot of 

 work to be done in this connection, and place against those 

 which have only occurred three times or less an asterisk to 

 attract attention, but we have not starred any Petrels. 



We are preparing a Handbook, dealing systematically with 

 all the species, and we will include details of the higher groups 

 in plain language, accompanied by good figures elucidating the 

 differential points. Upon calculation we find that 211 species 

 names are included in the List, and of these no fewer tb an 

 thirty-six have only occurred three times or less. In addition, 

 a minority, but still an appreciable number, only breed on the 

 subtropical and sub-antarctic outliers of the Dominion, while 

 again only thirty-two Passeriform species are included, of 

 which four are island forms. These figures are given simply 

 to show the extraordinary lack of bird-life, which has for its 

 only compensation the peculiar nature of the existing forms. 



Class AVES 



Subclass Impennes 



Order Sphenisci 



Suborder SjDhenisciformes 



Family Spheniscidge. Thick-billed Penguins 



Eudyptula minor (Forster 1781, Aptenodytes) 



Little Blue Penguin 

 Eudyptula alhosignata Finsch, 1874 

 Silver Penguin 



