224 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Ilimantojms niger, Ellraan, Zool., 18G1, p. 7,470. 

 Jlimantojyus melas, Hutton, Cat. B. of N.Z., 1871, p. 30. 

 Ilhnantojms oiovoi-zealandice, Buller, Birds of N.Z., 1873, p. 205. 

 Jlimantojnts sjncatus (?picatus), Potts, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1872, 

 p. 171, et p. 198. 



3. HiMANTOrUS ALBICOLLIS, Sp. TIOV. 



Ad. — Capite toto cum collo undique et corpore subtus toto albis ; intcr- 

 scapiilio, scapiilaribus cum dorso suramo et tectricibus alarum nigris ; remiges 

 anguste albido terminatis j subalaribus nigris ; dorso postico et uropygio albis ; 

 Cauda nigra : rostro nigro : pedibus pallid6 cruentatis. 



Art. XXX. — On some additions to the Collection of Birds in the Colonial 

 Museum. By Walter L. Buller, D.Sc, F.L.S., etc. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophiccd Society, lOtJi February, 1S75.] 



I HAVE much pleasure in laying before tlie Society this evening several 

 ornithological novelties lately added to the collection in the Colonial Museum, 

 and kindly submitted to me by Dr. Hector for determination. 



NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould. 



The first specimen to be noticed is an example of the Australian "VVhimbrel, 

 obtained a short time since by Mr. Liardet in the Wairau, and presented to 

 the Museum by our Vice-President, W. T. L. Travers, Esq., F.L.S. 



I have carefully compared the specimen with the descriptions of this and 

 the allied species in Gould's Birds of Australia, and in Finsch and Hartlaub's 

 Birds of Central Polynesia, and I feel no hesitation in assigning it to 

 NiLmenius uropygialis. Gould states that this form is somewhat smaller than 

 the European bird, Numenius phceopus {=/e77ioralis, Peale); and the New 

 Zealand example, as will be seen from the following comparative statement of 

 measurements is even smaller than Gould's type. The colours and markings 

 of the plumage, however, leave no doubt on my mind that it is the species 

 described by Mr. Gould under the above name; and we may, I think, safely 

 conclude that the example before us is an accidental straggler from Australia. 



3ill. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsu8, 



In. 



In 



In. 



In. 



3 



9-5 



3 



2-25 



N. uropygialis, according to Gould 



New Zealand example ... ... 2-4 8-75 3-25 2-2 



2. Numenius cyanopus, Vieillot. 



In company with the bird noticed above, Mr. Liardet observed, and 

 afterwards succeeded in shooting, a fine specimen of the Australian Curlew, 



