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are more or less doubtful. Still, the number of long-winged Natatores 

 wliicli visit New Zealand occasionally may perhaps be greater, since nearly 

 all the species belonging to the country have notably a very wide range, 

 extending in many cases over both hemispheres. 



The following species must be added to the ornithology of New Zealand 

 as new: — Procellaria incerta, Schleg., and Pr. mollis, Grould (Pelzeln, 

 "Novara Exp.," p. 146) ; also, Diomedea clilororliynclia, G-ml., and melan- 

 opJirys, Boie ; and a Thalassidroma sp. ? (Layard, " Ibis," 1863, p. 245.) 



Pam. Laeid^. — Lestris antarcticus may be set down, without further con- 

 sideration, as a synonym for L. catarractes, 111. ; Grould himself has lately 

 declared them to be the same. 



Larus antipodiim is, without doubt, the same as L. dominicanus, Licht. 

 The species ranges over the whole southern hemisphere. L. scopulimcs has 

 also a very extended habitat. Whether L. scTiimperi really belongs to New 

 Zealand is still a doubtful question, since the proof of this rests only on a 

 label in the Museum at Mayence. On the other hand, the Leiden Museum 

 possesses a specimen which comes, without any doubt, from China. Layard ob- 

 served also Larus pacificits, Lath., in New Zealand. (" Ibis," 1863, p. 245), (25). 



Sterna strenua, Grould, is known to be the same as our St. caspia, Pall. ; 

 St. frontalis, Grray, is St. longipennis, Nordm., in its winter plumage. It 

 spreads itself over the whole Indian and Pacific Oceans (see " Ornith. 

 Cent. Polyn.," p. 222). St. antarctica, Forst., is the same species as our St. 

 minuta, Linn, {nereis, Grould). Sydroclielidon albostriata is, according to 

 Schlegel and Blasins, no other than our Tiylrida, Pall. (Jluviatilis, Grould). 



Fam. PELiCAisriDiE. — New Zealand, of all countries in the world, is the 

 richest in cormorants : no land of the same size can produce so many species. 

 Three of the eight cormorants known in New Zealand are peculiar to the 

 country, Graculus hrevirostris, Gould ; punetatus, Sparrm. ; and chalconotus, 

 Gray. The remainder are scattered over Australia, as far as the Moluccas 

 and Sunda Islands. 



Graculus carhdides cannot be separated as -a species from our European 

 Gr. carlo, Linn. It belongs to the most wide-spread Natatores with which 

 I am acquainted. Gr. stictocephalus is the same as sulcirostris, Brandt, and 

 is found also in the Moluccas and Sunda Islands. 



Gray mentions, besides JDysporus serrator, also Dysporus piscator, lAnn., 

 as an inhabitant of New Zealand. 



NEW SPECIES. 

 1. Anthoenis aueiocula. 

 "We wish very much that Mr. BuUer had given the comparative measure- 

 ments of the noAV species with A. melanura^ for it is scarcely possible to dis- 



