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during the winter, Tasmania, Australia, New Caledonia, ete., consequently, 
north-westwards, since up to the present time it has not been observed on 
the islands of Polynesia proper. 
Mr. Buller’s views with regard to the specific differences of the New 
Zealand gold-cuckoos, copied from G. R. Gray (* Voy. of Ereb. and Terr."), 
do not hold good. New Zealand specimens, compared with Australian, do not 
exhibit any difference sufficiently well defined to class them separately. So 
also Verreaux’s specimens from New Caledonia agree with the Australian. 
According to Schlegel, the range of Chr. lucidus extends over New Guinea 
as far as Java and Sumatra. 
The marking of the tail-feathers, the number of bands and dots on the 
same, differ clearly in these as well as on the allied species (16). 
According to Dieffenbach, Chr. lucidus lays its eggs in the nests of 
Rhipidura flabellifera. Eu. taitensis also makes use of the nest of that bird 
for the same purpose, as well as the nest of Anthornis melanura (Ramsay, 
“ This,” 1865, p. 154), (17). 
Fam. CozuxBrp.—The dearth of the pigeon tribe in New Zealand de- 
serves particular mention, as characteristic of the ornithology of the country. 
Fam. TETRAONIDU.—In this family also New Zealand is wonderfully 
deficient. We miss, with astonishment, representatives of the genera 
Turnix and Synoicus, of which there are so many species in Australia and 
Tasmania. 
According to Hutton, pheasants are very numerous in the neighbourhood 
of Epsom, Auckland, and they brood twice in the year. Ortyx virginiana 
inereases also wonderfully fast. 
Fam. ArrERYarp.— Our knowledge of Apteryz australis (Shaw), is not 
eonfined to the two specimens referred to by Mr. Buller. The Leiden 
Museum possesses one also, and there is a very fine specimen in the Im- 
perial eollections at Vienna. 
With regard to their nidification, the accounts given by the natives do 
not appear to be quite correct. From observations made in the Zoological 
Gardens in London (on a female, A. mantelli), the bird itself tries to hatch 
the egg. Mr. Webster states, in his communications, that the egg is 
deposited in a hollow log. 
Gould has given an account of all that is yet known of the nidification of 
irte (* Handbook, Birds of Australia,” IL, p. 570.) 
, CHARADRIIDEÆ.— There is a specimen of Charadrius bicinctus, from 
sem yop s Island, in the Leiden Museum. Hematopus longirostris 
ranges as far as New Guinea. Charadrius xanthocheilus (fulvus, Gml.)— 
which resembles our European Chr. pluvialis to an extraordinary degree— 
has a = extensive range, extending over Australia, the Indian Archipelago, 
