212 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Tasmania." In otlicr -words, Colluricincla concinna, ITutton = Graucahis 

 concinnus, Hntton ■= Gi'aucalus 2^arvi7'ost7'is, Gould. 



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

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

 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 Hutton and myself, reprinted in last 

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

 that my specimens of Xenicus longijyes in the Colonial Museum had been 

 " wrongly determined," while I, on the other hand, contended that Xenicus 

 stohesii had no real existence as a species. The sjoecimen labelled by Captain 

 ITutton as " Xenicus stohesii, female," and sent forward to Dr. Finsch, is 

 referred by this naturalist, without hesitation, to X. longijyes, Gmelin. 



Captain Hutton's Chrysococcyx i:>lagosus, 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 2ylagosus, Gould (Handbook I., p. 623) = Chrysococcyx nitens^ 

 Forster = C. lucidus, Gml. 



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

 Antliocli(BTa hulleri was identical with A. carunculata oi 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 example of Totanus canescens (sent by Mr. Purdie, of the Otago 

 Museum), Dr. Finsch observes " agrees very well with Euro^Dean specimens." 



The late Mr. D. Monro's specimen of Ilydrochelidon leucoptera, from 

 Marlborough, was rightly determined. 



The Petrel referred by Captain Hutton and myself to Puffinus hrevicaudus 

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



Prion hanksii, Hutton {nee Smith) = Prion turtur, Banks and Gould. 



Eudyptes anti2)odum, from the Otago Museum, is correctly identified. 



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

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

 of New Zealand, p. 354.) 



