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Besides our two common gulls, Larus antipodum and L. scopulinus, 
> another species (Larus schimperi) is quoted by Mr. Gray as a New Zealand 
bird. . 
Among the birds enjoying an unlimited oceanic range are the terns, five 
species of which visit our shores. These are Sterna strenua, S. frontalis, S. 
antarctica, Hydrochelidon albostriata, and Anous stolidus. 
Fam. PELECANIDX.— The great tribe of Cormorants finds no ae than 
eight representatives in New Zealand, named respectively Graculus carboides, 
G. cirrhatus, G. melanoleucus, G. varius, G. punctatus, G. brevirostris, G. 
chalconotus, and Gt. stictocephalus. 
A beautiful gannet (Sula serrator) frequents our bays and estuarie 
and great numbers of them breed on a small island near the Kawhia coast. 
We shall conclude this short treatise on the birds of New Zealand by 
recording the capture of two fine specimens of the frigate bird (Fregat 
aquila), which is undoubtedly the noblest member of this family. One o 
them was killed in Whakapuaka Bay in the summer of 1855, and is now 
deposited in the Provincial Museum at Nelson; the other (measurin 
nearly seven feet in extent) was taken at Castle Point, on the East Coast o 
the Wellington Province, and came into the possession of George Moor 
Esq., who generously presented it to the writer of this essay. 
