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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. 



Bill from gape to point 

 Tarsus 



Middle toe and claw 

 Wing ... 

 Total length 

 Weight 2J oz. 



Female is of smaller and slighter frame, weighing 2^oz. 

 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. — Rallus pictus, Potts. 

 PI. XYTII. 

 Dr. Finsch does not allow this as a good species. 



Sketches are given which will permit a comparison of the bills of E. pictus 

 and R. 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, Yol. lY., p. 202. 



No. 87. OCYDROMUS. 



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 

 0. australis in being repeated with far greater rapidity of utterance. 



No. 92. — Casakca vakiegata, Gml. 

 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 Kangitata. 



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 Trans. N.Z. Inst., Yol. III., 

 p. 103.) 



