Burrer.—On New Zealand Ornithology. 57 
From a hasty examination of the unique specimen in the Auckland 
Museum, made thirteen years ago, I concluded that it belonged to the genus 
Mimus, and entered it under that head in my note-book. Some years after- 
wards, when writing a paper for the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 
(June, 1864,) I included this bird under the provisional title of Mimus 
carunculatus, and it found its way under the same name into the “ Essay.” 
It was only very recently that, through the kindness of Captain Hutton, 
Curator of the Auckland Museum, I had an opportunity of making a further 
examination of the specimen. 
27. The two species of Creadion—C. carunculatus and O. cinereus—are 
totally distinct. 
Herr Finsch is therefore wrong in his surmise that the latter is the 
young of the former. 
` Creadion cinereus has never been found in the North Island, where C. 
carunculatus is comparatively common. I have seen the young of the latter 
speeies, which differs in no way from the adult except in the paleness of 
the tints and in the smaller size of the caruncles. 
28. Another species of Nestor from the west coast of the South Island, 
Nestor occidentalis, Buller, has recently been described. (“ Ibis," 1869.) 
29. In addition to the species enumerated in the above notes, I may 
mention the diminutive penguin, Spheniscus undinus, Gould, (smaller than S. 
minor,) of which I have obtained specimens on the west coast of the Wel- 
lington Province. 
The following is a list of the additional species referred to in the above 
notes as occurring in New Zealand, which have been added to the avifauna 
since the publication of Herr Finsch’s critique :— 
1. Hylochelidon nigricans, Gould. 
2. Xenicus haasti, Buller. 
8. Sphenceacus rufescens, Buller. 
4. Turnagra hectori, Buller. 
5. Nestor occidentalis, Buller. 
6. Platycercus alpinus, Buller. 
7. Ardea nove-hollandie. 
8. Botaurus 
9. Himantopus Vincpleie 
10. Gallinago pusilla, Buller. 
11. Ocydromus nigricans, Buller. 
12. Anas gracilis, Buller. 
13. Spheniscus undinus, Gould. 
14. Larus melanorhynchus, Buller. 
