204 Transactions.— Zoology. 
Eudyptes schlegeli, Finsch.= Fu. diadematus, indiv. No. 3, Schleg., in 
Mus. P.B. 
General coloration, size, and form of bill as in chrysolopha, but front 
margin, slate-black; a broad frontal band, bright orange, with narrow 
black shafts. This orange band runs to above the eye, and here the hair, 
like black shafts, forms a small tuft of about 24-inches in length, which runs 
backwards ; round the eye, and the temporal region, pale brownish-grey ; 
lores, and a narrow rim round the mandible, pale sulphur-yellow ; cheeks, 
sides of the head and neck, and the whole under surface, white. 
Culmen. Rietus. Height of Bill. Flipper. 
2-inch, 7 lines. 83-inch, 8 lines. 10 lines. 7-inches. 
Arr, XXV.—An account of the Maori manner of preserving the Skin of the 
Huia, Heteralocha auctirostris, Buller. By J. D. Envs. 
(Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd June, 1875.) 
Waite spending the latter part of the last winter (1874) on the East Coast 
of the Wellington Province I had the opportunity of observing the way the 
Maoris preserved the skin of the Huia (Heteralocha auctirostris ). The 
party I saw most of were two brothers, whom I met at the edge of a 
large forest, on their return from their expedition. Their equipments 
were few, consisting of a small blanket, a gun, and a slight stock of pro- 
visions. §o provided, they started off into the bush, and calling the birds 
by an imitation of its note, which is well expressed by the native name Huia, 
they bring them within range of their guns. Formerly they killed them 
with small sticks. The bird is skinned, leaving both mandibles as well as 
the wattle attached, but both wings and legs removed. The skin is then 
stretched by three small sticks, placed one above the other, and stuck on a 
forked stick inserted in the ground in front of a fire, the inside of the skin 
is turned towards the fire so as to dry the skin ready for packing; the tail 
is carefully bent back behind so as not to dirty the white tips of the feathers. 
When dried, the under side of the quills of the tail feathers are cut away 
carefully, so as to render the feathers more flexible. 
A piece of Totara bark (Podocarpus totara ), about two feet long and 
five feet wide, is prepared and bent double in the middle, the ends being 
rounded off. The dried skins with the tail feathers bent back over the back 
as dried, are placed between these thin pieces of bark, and are then ready 
for being sent away to the Waikato and Taupo country, where they are 
most valuable articles of exchange. 
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