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4 time, was heard at Rotorua, as also was (42), whose triplets were intro- 
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duced by a triplet falling in quarter-tones. quaver was at times 
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Local song was also heard at Hiruharama, on the Wanganui River, | 
as in (43)-(45). 
extent. On a review of the songs recorded it seems possible that there _ 
may be at least two species of warbler. In all localities with which I am 
most familiar the warbler has two distinct types of song—one bright and | 
cheery, the other plaintive ; the latter being the one more often sung, and 
subject to the greater amount of variation. The two types as hea 
around Wellington are best represented by (384)-(38c), and (29), (298) 
(Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 49, pp. 527, 526, 1917). It is the latter tvpe, in 
one or more of its many variations, that I hear in parts of New Zealand 
visited by me only occasionally. In the Stony Bay bush, Banks Peninsula, - 
however, the two types of song are as (13)-(16) (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 45, 
р. 394, 1913) and (3) (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 41, р. Тһе 
second of these is a long, indeterminate, rambling melody, never broken _ 
into definite phrases as in other localities, and I have heard it only on the 
Prev (Anthus novae-zealandiae ) . ; 
Whilst camped at the head of the Godley River Valley in December, 
1920, and January, 1921, the pipit was almost the only bird either seen 
or heard. The camp was pitched at the foot of the last vegetation- 
covered spur of the Sibbald Range, near the. terminal face of the Godley | 
Glacier. From the alpine garden of hillside above I heard, as I thought, | 
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