BuLLEE. — Oil New Zealand Oniitlwlogy. 57 



From a hasty examination o£ the unique specimen in the Auckland 

 Museum, made thirteen years ago, I concluded that it belonged to the genus 

 Mimus, and entered it under that head in my note-book. Some years after- 

 wards, when writing a paper for the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 

 (June, 1864,) I included this bird under the provisional title of Mimus 

 carunculatiis, and it found its way under the same name into the " Essay." 



It was only very recently that, through the kindness of Captain Hutton, 

 Curator of the iVuckland Museum, I had an opportunity of making a further 

 examination of the specimen. 



27. The two species of Greadion — C. carunculatus and C. cinereus — are 

 totally distinct. 



Herr Einsch is therefore wrong in his surmise that the latter is the 

 young of the former. 



Creadion cinereus has never been found in the North Island, where O. 

 carunculatus is comparatively common. I have seen the young of the latter 

 species, which differs in no way from the adult except in the paleness of 

 the tints and in the smaller size of the caruncles. 



28. Another species of Nestor from the west coast of the South Island, 

 Nestor occidentalis, BuUer, has recently been described. (" Ibis," 1869.) 



29. In addition to the species enumerated in the above notes, I may 

 mention the diminutive penguin, Sj)heniscus tmdinus, Grould, (smaller than ^S*. 

 minor,) of which I have obtained specimens on the west coast of the Wel- 

 lington Province. 



The following is a list of the additional species referred to in the above 

 notes as occurring in New Zealand, which have been added to the avifauna 

 since the publication of Herr Einsch's critique : — 



1. Sylochelidon nigricans, Grould. 



2. Xenicus haasti. Puller. 



3. Sphenosacus rufescens, Puller. 



4. Turnagra hectori, Puller. 



5. Nestor occidentalis. Puller, 



6. Vlatycercus alpinus, Puller. 



7. Ardea novce-JioUandicBi 



8. Botaurus ? 



9. Simantopus leiccocephalus. 



10. Gallinago pusilla^ Puller. , 



11. Ocgdromus nigricans, Puller. 



12. Anas gracilis, 'Buller. 



13. Spheniscus undinus, Grould. 



14. Larus melanorhynchus, Puller. 



