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are more or less doubtful. Still, the number of long-winged Natatores 
which visit New Zealand occasionally may perhaps be greater, since nearly 
all the species belonging to the country have notably a very wide range, 
extending in many cases over both hemispheres. 
The following species must be added to the ornithology of New Zealand 
as new:—Procellaria incerta, Schleg., and Pr. mollis, Gould (Pelzeln, 
* Novara Exp." p. 146) ; also, Diomedea chlororhyncha, Gml., and melan- 
ophrys, Boie; and a Thalassidroma sp. ? (Layard, “ Ibis," 1863, p. 245.) 
Fam. Langrp.— Lestris antarcticus may be set down, without further con- 
sideration, as a synonym for ZL. catarractes, Ill.; Gould himself has lately 
declared them to be the same. : 
Larus antipodum is, without doubt, the same as L. dominicanus, Licht. 
The species ranges over the whole southern hemisphere. L. scopulinus has 
also a very extended habitat. Whether L. schimperi really belongs to New 
Zealand is still a doubtful question, since the proof of this rests only on a 
label in the Museum at Mayence. On the other hand, the Leiden Museum 
possesses a specimen which comes, without any doubt, from China. Layard ob- 
served also Larus pacificus, Lath.,in New Zealand. (“ Ibis,” 1863, p. 245), (25). 
Sterna strenua, Gould, is known to be the same as our Sf. caspia, Pall. ; 
St. frontalis, Gray, is St. longipennis, Nordm., in its winter plumage. It 
spreads itself over the whole Indian ahd Pacifie Oceans (see “ Ornith. 
Cent. Polyn.,” p. 222). St. antarctica, Forst., is the same species as our St. 
minuta, Linn. (nereis, Gould). Hydrochelidon albostriata is, according to 
Schlegel and Blasins, no other than our hybrida, Pall. (fluviatilis, Gould). 
Fam. Peticanipz.—New Zealand, of all countries in the world, is the 
richest in cormorants: no land of the same size can produce so many species. 
_ Three of the eight cormorants known in New Zealand are peculiar to the 
country, Graculus brevirostris, Gould ; punctatus, Sparrm. ; and chalconotus, 
Gray. The remainder are scattered over Australia, as far as the Moluccas 
and Sunda Islands. 
Graculus carboides cannot be separated as ‘a species from our European . 
Gr. carbo, Linn. It belongs to the most wide-spread Natatores with which 
Tam acquainted. Gr. stictocephalus is the same as sulcirostris, Brandt, and 
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is found also in the Moluccas and Sunda Islands. 
Gray mentions, besides Dysporus serrator, also Dysporus piscator, Linn., 
as an inhabitant of New Zealand. 
NEW SPECIES. 
a 1. ANTHORNIS AURIOCULA. 
T We wish very much that Mr. Buller had'given the comparative measure- 
of the new Species with A, melanura, for it is scarcely possible to dis- 
