T. W. KiEK, — On the Nesting Habits of Glaucopis cinerea. 



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The accompanying sketch represents a curious deformity (if I may use 

 the term) in the bill of a female Huia {Heteralocha acutirostris), now in the 



Museum collection. It is evidently the result of an accident, and from its 

 appearance I should say that a shot had just passed below the nostril, 

 splitting the bill in the manner shown. The left side of the upper mandible 

 has also been broken off, but this was evidently a subsequent misfortune, as 

 the broken edge is still somewhat sharp ; while the top of the bill and 

 " spike " are smooth and pohshed. This unfortunate bird was presented to 

 the Museum several years ago, by Mr. J. D. Enys, who shot it at Akitea. 



Abt. XXIV. — Notes on the Nesting Habits of the Orafige-icattled Crow. 

 By W. D. Campbell, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S. 

 [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 27th September, 1879.] 

 The nature of the nesting habits of the Glaucojns cinerea (Orange-wattled 

 Crow) have been as yet enth-ely unknown, and the author, having chanced 

 to find, towards the end of February last, two nests of this species near the 

 Ko-i-te-rangi hill, on the Hokitika river, forwards the following description 

 of them. 



The nests, which were 15 inches externally, were somewhat loosely con- 

 structed of twigs and roots, and had well-formed cup-shaped interiors, lined 

 with pine roots and twigs ; they were built in the branches of the Coprosma, 

 or "black" scrub, which grows upon the low river-flats of Westland, near 

 the moimtain ranges. The average height of the scrub in this instance 

 was about 15 feet, while the nests were about 9 feet above the ground, 

 and 200 feet distant from each other ; one contained an egg, the other, two 

 nearly fledged birds. The egg has been presented to the Colonial Mu- 

 seum. The two young birds were kept for some weeks in a cage for the 



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