Buruer, — Additions to List of Species, and Notices of Rare Occurrences, 866 
Procertarta morts, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist., Vol. XIIL, p. 868. 
Dr, Finsch has added this species to our list on the authority of a 
specimen captured by the Novara Expedition. After what has been said 
above, the identification (in the absence of measurements) may be open to 
question, as between this species and Procellaria affinis. 
Procenuaria cærvLea, Gmel,, Sys. Nat., I., p. 560. 
In my account of this species” I referred to the scarcity of specimens in 
the colony, the Auckland Museum alone at that time possessing it. 
I received last year a specimen in very perfect plumage from Mr. C. H. 
Robson of Cape Campbell. 
It is readily distinguished by the scapulars being edged and the tail- 
feathers broadly tipped with white. 
Priocenta AwTARCTICA, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I., 565; Sharpe, App. Zool. 
Ereb. and Ter., 1875, 87. 
I am in doubt as to the propriety of admitting this species into our 
avifauna, the specimen described by Dr. Hectort having been shot in lat. 46° 
S., long. 116° 9” E., or “about 1,000 miles west of Tasmania, and in the 
latitude of Otago." It was included among the ‘ Birds of New Zealand’ in 
the “Voyage of the ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror; " and one or more of the five 
specimens in the British Museum are said to have been captured in our 
seas, but the evidence is by no means complete. 
Paxton rnusrtciupa, Dodd.; Gould, Birds of Austr., VIL, pl. 78. 
The claim of this species to be considered a New Zealand inhabitant is 
fully discussed in my paper of the 12th January last (Trans. N.Z. Inst., 
Vol. X., pp. 219-220). 
Prorus xovze-HornixprE, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., part XV., p. 84. 
The occurrence of this Australian species in New Zealand was recorded 
by me in October, 1874 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. VII, p. 217). 
Puatacrocorax Finscut, Sharpe, Ibis. 
Mr. Bowdler Sharpe has distinguished, under the above name, a specimen 
from New Zealand, in the British Museum, differing from P. brevirostris in 
having a white spot on the wing-coverts. (See my notes, on a hitherto 
undescribed form, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. VILI., p. 197, and Vol. IX., 
pp. 838-340). 
Paaracnoconax cmancoxorUs,] Gray, Voy. Err. and Terr., Birds, p. 20, pl. 21. 
Dr. Finscli has identified an example of this species, forwarded to him 
by Prof. Hutton, from Otago. 3 
* Birds of New Zealand, p. 306. + Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IX., p. 464. 
1 | Sac cone Aran of this species, in tho “ Birds of New Zealand: "i is from the typo in 
the Bri 
