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fulvous ; neck pale fulvous, speckled with brown ; breast and abdomen white ; 
under tail-coverts white with a narrow streak of brown in the centre ; legs, 
feet, and toes greenish brown, tinted with yellowish. 
In. Lines. 
Bill from gape to point 2 
Tarsus ee i eee 
Middle toe and claw | Gea 
Wing ... 5 2 
S6 
Total length 
Weight 24 oz. 
Female is of smaller and slighter frame, weighing 21oz. 
This sandpiper, identical with L. acuminatus, Gould, is found both in 
Australia and Tasmania. Specimens have been recently received from 
Adelaide, South Australia, which were marked as having been procured in 
Northern Australia. 
This is, perhaps, the first notice of the occurrence of this little Tringa so 
far to the south as Canterbury, New Zealand. 
No. 84.—Ratuus pictus, Potts. 
Pl. XVIII 
Dr. Finsch does not allow this as a good species. 
Sketches are given which will permit a comparison of the bills of R, pictus 
and Ñ. pectoralis. As yet the Canterbury Museum has been unable to 
transmit a specimen to Europe to enable foreign ornithologists to view the 
difference between these two rails. 
For an account of the relative measurement, etc., of the two species see 
Trans, N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 202. 
No. 87.—OcCYDROMUS. 
On the southern river Waio, Westland, we procured a small woodhen 
(weka) of rich rufous. The cry of this bird differed from that of the usual 
O. australis in being repeated with far greater rapidity of utterance. 
No. 92.—Casarca VARIEGATA, Gmi. 
Paradise Duck, 
We have a note of the occurrence of the nest of this bird at 15 feet from 
the ground in a hole in a black birch (Fagus cliffortioides) near Forest Creek, 
Upper Rangitata. 
No. 95.—SpaTULA VARIEGATA, Gould. 
Shoveller, 
A nest with ten eggs was found at Big Bay, Lake Ellesmere. The eggs 
do not differ from those before described. (See Zrans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IIL., 
p. 103.) 
