80 Transactions.— Zoology. 
Museum. It is true there is another in the Bremen Museum which was 
stated to have been received from New Zealand, but it now appears that 
there is considerable doubt as to the correctness of the statement. 
In the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. xiv., p. 264, 
Mr. T. F. Cheeseman records the occurrence of a small flock of them on 
the Manukau Harbour. Mr. E. A. Plumby being fortunate enough to 
secure two specimens for the Auckland Museum. 
Two years later Dr. Buller recorded the capture of another pair on 
Portland Island near Napier, and also communicated a notice by Mr. C. H. 
Robson on the breeding habits of this rare species. 
The point of interest in connection with the specimen now exhibited is 
the occurrence of this beautiful little wader in the Wellington district. 
In November last a specimen in splendid plumage was shot at the Pilot 
Station in Worser Bay, and procured for the Museum. Subsequently a 
pair was seen at Island Bay; these also were shot, and I am informed by 
the taxidermist who prepared them, are now in the possession of a resident 
of this city. 
It is very curious that its right to a place in the Avifauna of this 
country should for so many years have rested on a single specimen, and 
that during the last three years upwards of fifteen examples have been 
noted, in three different and widely separate localities. 
Art. IX.—Notes on some New Zealand Birds, exhibiting curious Variations 
of Colour. By T. W. Kez. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th July, 1884.) 
1. Glaucopis wilsoni, Bp. Blue-wattled crow, Kokako. 
Srvera instances of abnormal colouring in this genus have already been 
recorded. The first specimen showing a leaning towards albinism belongs 
to the South Island species or orange-wattled crow (Glaucopis cinerea). It 
is of the usual dark bluish-grey, with the exception of a few white feathers 
scattered indiscriminately over the whole body ; a description will be found 
on page 154 of Dr. Buller's ** Birds of New Zealand." 
All the specimens subsequently obtained belong to the North Island 
species or blue-wattled erow. 
In 1877 & pure albino having bright pink eyes and very small pink 
wattles was captured in the Rimutaka mountains, and kept alive for several 
months by Mr. Elliott of Pakuratahi, during which time it became sufficiently 
domestieated to feed from the hand of its owner. 
