BurnLnER.— On a New Lizard. 897 
is a crescent spot of white, margined with brown, and down the side of the 
body to the insertion of the hind legs there is a series of detached spots of 
white, surrounded more or less with green. On the tail the same character of 
colouring is continued, but it loses its distinctness, the markings becoming 
more blended. The whole under-surface of the body is pale whitish, or 
silvery-brown ; irides, brown ; tongue and inside of mouth, pale orange, or 
flesh coloured. Head, '7; body, 2:5 ; tail, 8'5. 
Young: General colour, bright pea-green, varied with transverse bands 
of paler green, and marked irregularly with minute specks of reddish- 
brown. Under surface, very pale green, inclining to white on the throat. 
From the angles of the mouth, and down each side of the body there is.à 
series of irregular yellowish-white spots. 
Mr. Atkinson informed me that these oe were captured together 
on a heap of firewood, at one of the Nelson and Foxhill railway stations, 
in the Waimea District. They had been in his possession for upwards of 
six weeks, and during that period had neither eaten nor voided anything. 
On examining them, we both remarked on the length and extreme flexibility 
of the tail, which was usually coiled up to the root, reminding one of the 
small fire-works known to school-boys as ** Catherine-wheels." In this 
respect this species differs conspicuously from Naultinus elegans, which, 
although possessing a very mobile tail never coils it up in the manner 
described. 
Art. XXXII.—On the Ornithology of New Zealand. By Warrer L. BULLER, 
G., Se.D., President. 
Plate. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 16th September, 1876.] 
In continuation of my paper under the above title in last year’s volume of 
« Transactions,” I beg to lay before the Society some further notes and 
observations, adopting, for convenience, the nomenclature used in my 
* Birds of New Zealand." 
Circus gouldi. 
This fine Hawk is becoming perceptibly scarcer in many parts of the 
country, owing to its wholesale destruction by farmers. On a recent 
occasion I counted no less than ninety-six heads nailed up in imposing rows 
against the wall of an outhouse on a small sheep station. This crusade 
arises from the popular belief that the Harrier attacks and kills young 
lambs. That it occasionally does so in the case of weaklings is beyond doubt, 
but I am of opinion that the mischief done is very much exaggerated, and that . 
