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9. I do not admit Dr. Finsch’s new Penguin from Akaroa Heads 
Hudyptula oblosignata, and I feel sure that on receiving a larger 
series of specimens, he will himself relinquish it. 
10. Dr. Finsch’s observations on the coloration of Apterya haasti, in 
which he declares that it ‘entirely agrees with Apteryx owent, 
and is by no means darker, as Dr. Buller says,” is another 
instance of the danger of generalizing from a single specimen. 
There is now an example of Apteryx haasti in the Canterbury 
Museum, in which the chestnut coloring is almost as dark as in 
Apteryx mantelli. 
There are other points on which I am hardly inclined to agree with the 
learned author, but I have no wish to provoke a controversy by pursuing 
the subject further. % 
Arr. XXII.—Remarks on various species of New Zealand Birds, in explanation 
of Specimens exhibited at meetings of the Wellington Philosophical Society, 
1875-6. By Watrer L. Butter, C.M.G., D.Se., President. 
1. On varieties of Carpophaga Nove Zealandia. 
Dr. Butter exhibited two remarkable specimens of the New Zealand Pigeon 
(Carpophaga Nove Zealandia.) One of these was a beautiful albino, the 
entire plumage being of a pure milk white, the small wing coverts alone 
presenting a slight tinge of yellowish-brown ; bill and feet carmine red. It 
was obtained in the Wairarapa by Mr. Keleher, who has presented it to the 
Colonial Museum. The other specimen was a partial albino, shot by Capt. 
Mair, of Tauranga, and presented to the exhibitor. In this bird the shoul- 
ders, back, rump, and upper tail coverts have a rich appearance, the white 
predominating. Some of the wing feathers and their coverts are wholly 
white, with bronzed edges and clouded with grey, while others: again pre- 
sent the normal coloration. The distribution of colors, however, is quite 
irregular, the white largely predominating in the right wing. In remarking 
on these specimens, Dr. Buller referred to some other accidental varieties 
described at page 158 of his “ Birds of New Zealand,” and more particularly 
to an example presented to him by Mr. Edward Hardeastle, of Hokitika 
(now in the Colonial Museum), in which the head, neck, fore part of the 
bteast, and all the upper parts are pale yellowish-brown, more or less 
glossed with purple; the wing coverts and scapulars stained towards the 
tips with coppery brown ; the quills and tail-feathers uniform pale yellowish- 
brown, tinged with vinous, the tips of the latter paler. 
