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Besides our two commou gull.-s Lanos antipodum and L. scopulinus, 

 another species (Larus scMmperi) is quoted by Mr. Gray as a New Zealand 

 bird. 



Among the birds enjoying an unlimited oceanic range are the terns, five 

 species of which visit our shores. These are Sterna strenua, S. frontalis, S. 

 antarctica, Hydroclielidon alhostriata, and Anous stolidus. 



Fam. PELECAXiDiE. — The great tribe o£ Cormorants finds no less than 

 eight representatives in New Zealand, named respectively Graciolus carhoides, 

 G. cirrliatus, O. onelanoleucus, G. variiis, G. pionctatus, G. hrevirostris, G. 

 cJialconotus, and G. stictoceplialus. 



A beautiful gannet {Sula serrafor) frequents our bays and estuarie 

 and great numbers of them breed on a small island near the Kawhia coast. 



We shall conclude this short treatise on the birds of New Zealand by 

 recording the capture of two fine specimens of the frigate bird {Fregat 

 aqidla), which is undoubtedly the noblest member of this family. One o 

 them was killed in Whakapuaka Bay in the summer of 1855, and is noT*" 

 deposited in the Provincial Museum at Nelson ; the other (measurin 

 nearly seven feet in extent) was taken at Castle Point, on the East Coast o 

 the Wellington Province, and came into the possession of Greorge Moor 

 Esq., who generously presented it to the writer of this essay. 



