866 Transactions.— Zoology, 
Eupyeres vrrrATA, Finsch, Ibis, 1875, pp. 112-114. 
? Aptenodytes papua, Vieill. (nec Forst. nec Gmel.) Gal. Ois. IL, p. 246, 
(nee diagn.), tab. 299. 
This is a new species from Otago, and I believe the type is in the 
Dunedin Museum. ' 
EUDYPTES scHLEGELI, Finsch, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. VIIL, p. 240. 
(= E. diadematus, Schleg.) 
This form has been added from the Macquarie Islands, 
Another penguin referred by Schlegel to E. diadematus but identified by 
Finsch as E. chrysolopha, Brant, is said to have come from New Zealand, 
but only on the authority of a dealer. 
Evupypres atrata, Hutton, Ibis 1875, p. 112. 
This very distinet species was received by Prof. Hutton from the Snares. 
The jet black colouration of its under surface separates this form from all 
the other known species, and its massive deep bill, its very small hind toe 
and long tail, afford other distinguishing characters. In size it is equal 
to the well-known crested penguin / Eudyptes pachyrhynchus ). 
? EUDYPTULA ALBOSIGNATA, Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874; et Trans. N.Z. 
Iust., Vol. VII., p. 286. 
I have already stated* my reasons for considering this a mere variety of 
Eudyptula minor, but Dr. Finsch still believes in its validity as a species. 
The only differences pointed out by the learned doctor are, a patch of white 
on the upper tail-coverts, and a strongly marked peculiarity in the 
colouration of the flippers. 
Art. XLIX.— Further Contributions to the Ornithology of New Zealand. 
By Wa ter L. Burer, C.M.G., Sc.D. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th September, 1878.) 
HIERACIDEA FEROX, Peale,—Bush Hawk. 
Ix Volume VI of our Transactions, page 118, I pointed out why, in my 
opinion, Mr. Sharpe was wrong in proposing to substitute Hieracidea 
australis for the above name, in his communication to ‘The Ibis,’ 1878 pp. 
327-330. In his official catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Museum, 
he not only gives H. australis the precedence, but commits (as I venture to 
think) the further error of making it a *sub-species," whatever that may 
mean, of H. nove-zealandia. The two birds are either specifically distinct, 28 
* Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol, VIL, p. 210, 
