Potts. — New Zealand Birds. 171 



Art. XX..— 0)1 the Birds of Few Zealand. By T. H. Potts. F.L.S. 



(part III.) 



(With Illustrations.) 



\^Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 23rd October, 1872 ; and before the 



Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4dh September and 12th December, 1872.] 



List of Birds described in this Paper. 



[The species are numbered in conformity with the lists given in Parts I. and II. in 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. II., Art. viii., and Vol. III., Art. xi.] 

 No. _ _ ^ 



6. Athene (Strix) j)arvissinia, Potts. 



7. Halcyon vagans, Gray. 



12. Anthornis melanocephala, Gray. 



16. Zenicus longipes, Gml. 



19. Orthonyx. 



20. Sphenoeacus punctatus, Quoy. 

 B. 24. Gerygone sylvestris, n. s. 



26. Certhiparas novse-zealandise, Gml. 



35. Zosterops lateralis, Lath. 



36. Keropia crassirostris, Gray. 

 37—8. Hhipidura. 



45. Creadion carunculatus, Gml. 

 50. Platycercus. 



60. Coturnix novse-zealandise, Quoy. 



61. Apteryx australis, Shaw. 



62. „ oweni, Gould. 



63. „ mantelli, Bartl. 

 04. „ haastii, Potts. 



A. 65. Charadrius obscurus, Gml. 

 ^6. „ bicinctus, Jard. 



B. 65. Anarhynchus frontalis, Quoy. 

 D. 73. Ardea alba, Linn. 



C. 78. Himantopus spicatus. Potts, n. s. 

 A. 79. Limnocinclus australis. 



84. Rallus pictus, Potts. 



87. Ocydromus. 



92. Casarca variegata, G7}il. 



95. Spatula variegata, Gould. 



A. 106. Puffinus^tristis, Forst. 



A. 119. Prion australis, n. s. 



B. 131. Sterna nereis, Gould. 



138. Phalacrocorax punctatus, Sparrm. 



