212 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Tasmania." In other words, Colluricincla concinna, Button = Graucalus 

 concinnus, Button = Graucalus parvirostris, Gould. 



Dr. Finsch, after examining the specimen of the so-called Myiomoira 

 dieffenbachii, writes, " this orange-breasted form is the true macrocephala," 

 thus confirming the view advanced by me in 'Birds of New Zealand,' p. 126. 

 On another disputed point also I find that I have Dr. Finsch's support. In 

 the • Ibis ' controversy between Captain Button and myself, reprinted in last 

 year's Transactions of the 1ST. Z. Institute, pp. 126-138, my opponent argued 



Xenicus lonnipes in the Colonial Museum 



Xenicus 



stoJcesii had no real existence as a species. The specimen labelled by Captain 



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Captain Button's Chrysococcyx plagosus, from the Chatham Islands, 

 (Trans. N. Z. Institute, Vol. V., p. 223), which I declined to admit into my 

 work as a distinct species, is also rejected by Dr. Finsch, who refers the 

 specimen sent to C. lucidus. The synonymy (auct. Finsch) stands thus :— 

 Lamprococcyx plagonus, Gould (Bandbook I, p. 623) = Chrysococcyx nitens, 

 Forster s= C. lucidus, Gml. 



The opinion expressed by me (Trans. N. Z. Institute, Vol. I., p. Ill) that 

 Anthochcera hvlleri was identical with A. carunculala of Australia, is confirmed 

 by Dr. Finsch's examination of the type specimen. Having good reason to 



doubt whether the specimen in question (originally from the Auckland 

 Museum) was actually killed in New Zealand, as alleged, I expunged the 

 species in my last published list of New Zealand birds . 



The 



Museum), Dr. Finsch observes "agrees very well with European specimens." 



The late 

 Marlborou 



Hydrochelidon leucoptera, from 



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is identified by Dr. Finsch as P. tenuirostris, Temm. 



Prion banksii, Button (nee Smith) = Prion turtur, Banks and Gould. 



Eudyptes antipodum, from the Otago Museum, is correctly identified. 



Dr. Finsch considers the crested Grebe with the dark breast only a variety 

 of the well-known Podiceps cristatus. (See my remarks on this form, Birds 

 of New Zealand, p. 354.) 



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