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and certainly not from the Cape. E. tristis was received in the Vienna 
Museum lately from Dr. Haast (12). 
Fam. Corvips.—A third species of Calleas (olivascens) has lately been 
described by Pelzeln. : 
A close comparison between Aplonis obscurus and caledonicus, Bp., in 
Bremen Museum, convinces me that the two species are one. Specimens 
from New Zealand and New Caledonia show no such difference as to entitle 
them to belong to different species; another proof a there is a connection 
between the ornithology of the two islands. 
Fam. Psrrracıinæ.—These (Nestor superbus, 2 must be regarded as 
great curiosities. So far as I-am aware, there have as yet been no pure 
albinos found among the parrots. 
Nestor norfolcensis, Pelz., from Norfolk Island, deserves mention here 
also as an extinct bird. 
After my examination of the original specimens in the British Museum, 
I must look on Strigops greyi, Gray, as a well-established species. It differs 
from the common species (habroptilus, Gray) by the broad, well-defined, 
greenisb-blue borders of the feathers on the upper portion, the whitish bands 
on the head feathers, the greyish-white feathers on the forehead and cheeks, 
the nearly white stern and thighs, and the whitish diagonal spots on the 
inner feathers and first pinions. (See Finsch, “ The Parrots,” Vol. I., p. 254.) 
According to Mackay (* Ibis,” 1867, p. 145), the Strigops habroptilus abounds 
still on the west coast of the Middle Island, and in former times inhabited 
also the Chatham Islands (Travers, “Journal of the Linn. Soc.," Vol. IX., 
1865, No. 35) (13). 
Mr. Buller was not fortunate in his description of the Platycerci. As 
it is precisely in this direction that I have made special examinations, namely, 
on the typieal specimens in the British Museum, I feel myself constrained 
to make the following observations :— 
The longest known and commonest species in New Zealand is;— 
1. Platycercus nove-zealandie, Sparrm. 
PI. pacificus, Gml. 
PL erythrostis, Wagl. (Macquarie — 
Pl. rayneri, Gray (Norfolk Island). 
Cyanoramphus nove-guinee, Bp. 
Pl. cooki, Gray (New Zealand). 
Pl. aucklandicus, Bp: (Auckland Islands): 
C. saisseti, Verr. (New Caledonia): 
Tt has á wide range, and inhabits, besides New Zealand, also the Chathani 
nae Macquarie, Norfolk Islands, and Néw Caledonia: I can compare 
ns from all these localities, which have been ranked as distinct specus, 
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