212 Transactions. — Zoology. 



South Island bird they are shorter and softer. As I do not consider this 

 slight difference important enough I can regard the kiwi of the North Island 

 only as a race or local form, — A. australis var. mantelli, Bartl. 



I shall give an extensive treatise of the known species of Apteryx in my 

 revised list of the birds of New Zealand. 



Apteryx haastii, Potts. 



Judging from the communications on this species sent me by Dr. Haast 

 and Capt. Hutton I take it for a good species. I cannot agree with Mr. Potts 

 as to a hybridism between A. australis and oweni, because I am sure a hybrid 

 of those species would stand in size intermediate between the two, as is the 

 case in our Tetrao medius. 



Mr. Potts' name ought to be preserved for this species, for from A. 

 maxima, Verr., there exists no other source than the simple name, noticed 

 first by Bonaparte, without any reference to the Poa-roa. 



The following species are in my opinion worthy no longer to stand 

 amongst the list of the birds of New Zealand : — 



Strix paryissiraa, Ellni., Potts, Trans. N.Z. Inst., III., p. 68. 



Halcyon cinnamonimus, Sws. 



Anthochsera carunculata, Lath. (Mimus carunculatus, Bull.) 



Anthus grayi, Bp., Hutton's Cat., p. 13. 



Phipidura motacilloides, Vig., Hutton's Cat., p. 14. 



Aplonis obscurus, Du Bus. — caledonicus, Hutt. 



Crex pratensis. — (Rallus featherstoni, Bull.) 



Anous stolidus, L. 



Procellaria sequinoctialis, Z. 



Puffinus brevicaudatus, Br. 



Dysporus piscator, L. 



Graculus carunculatus, Gml. 



Aptenodytes pennantii, Gray. 



Abt. XXII. — On the Birds of the Chatham Islands, by H. H. Te avers, with 

 Introductory Bemarks on the Avi-fauna and Flora of the Islands in their 

 relation to those of New Zealand. By W. T. L. Travehs, F.L.S. 



]_Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, Wth September, 1872.] 



I HAVE compiled, from memoranda furnished to me by my son, Mr. H. H. 

 Travers, and have written in his name, the following notes of the distri- 

 bution and habits of the birds known to belong to the Chatham Islands, 

 specimens of the major part of which he obtained during a recent visit to that 

 group. The total number of birds mentioned in Capt Hutton's " Catalogue 



