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  363 
  

  

  LniNociNCLUS 
  AcujiiNATus, 
  Horsf. 
  : 
  Jard. 
  and 
  Selb, 
  I.O., 
  pi. 
  91. 
  

   Several 
  specimens 
  in 
  Canterbury 
  Museum. 
  

  

  PiiATALEA 
  EEGiA, 
  Gould, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  part 
  v., 
  p. 
  106. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  authentic 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  this 
  fine 
  Australian 
  bird 
  

   in 
  New 
  Zealand 
  is 
  contained 
  in 
  my 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  subject, 
  read 
  before 
  the 
  

   WelUngton 
  Philosophical 
  Society 
  in 
  July, 
  1876 
  (Trans. 
  N.Z, 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  IX., 
  

   p, 
  337) 
  based 
  on 
  a 
  specimen 
  obtained 
  at 
  Manawatu, 
  forwarded 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  C. 
  Hullje, 
  and 
  subsequently 
  presented 
  by 
  myself 
  to 
  the 
  Colonial 
  

   Museum, 
  

  

  ? 
  Mergus 
  australis, 
  Tlomhr. 
  and 
  Jacq., 
  Ann. 
  des 
  Sci. 
  Nat., 
  1841, 
  p. 
  320. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  communication 
  already 
  noticed. 
  Baron 
  von 
  Hligel 
  writes; 
  — 
  "I 
  

   procured 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  Mergansers 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  skins 
  in 
  Invercargill, 
  from 
  a 
  

   man 
  who 
  had 
  just 
  returned 
  from 
  a 
  surveying 
  trip 
  to 
  the 
  Auckland 
  Islands. 
  

   He 
  had 
  not 
  even 
  turned 
  the 
  skin 
  after 
  taking 
  it 
  off 
  the 
  body 
  ; 
  but 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  

   I 
  saw 
  the 
  back 
  through 
  the 
  opening, 
  and 
  felt 
  the 
  beak 
  through 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  

   the 
  neck, 
  I 
  knew 
  what 
  I 
  had. 
  =■' 
  '•' 
  ''• 
  ■•'■ 
  I 
  have 
  compared 
  this 
  Mergus 
  

   with 
  the 
  original 
  description 
  of 
  Mergus 
  australis, 
  in 
  the 
  voyage 
  of 
  the 
  

   * 
  Asti'olabe 
  '; 
  from 
  it 
  I 
  find 
  that 
  either 
  the 
  description 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  poor 
  one, 
  or 
  

   my 
  two 
  birds 
  must 
  belong 
  to 
  anew 
  species. 
  But 
  what 
  agrees 
  well, 
  and 
  made 
  

   me 
  first 
  think 
  they 
  were 
  an 
  immature 
  pair 
  of 
  birds, 
  is 
  the 
  lower 
  surface 
  

   of 
  the 
  body, 
  which, 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  white 
  as 
  in 
  M. 
  serrator, 
  is 
  of 
  a 
  dull 
  

   slaty 
  grey, 
  variegated 
  with 
  white 
  bands 
  (the 
  feathers 
  being 
  edged 
  with 
  

   white). 
  The 
  whole 
  plumage 
  is 
  very 
  dark, 
  approaching 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  back, 
  

   the 
  crest 
  well 
  formed, 
  and 
  the 
  size, 
  I 
  fancy, 
  considerably 
  smaller 
  than 
  tiie 
  

   British 
  red-breasted 
  Merganser 
  (M. 
  serrator). 
  From 
  the 
  great 
  difference 
  in 
  

   size 
  and 
  brightness 
  of 
  colouring 
  in 
  bill 
  and 
  feet, 
  I 
  deem 
  them 
  to 
  be 
  male 
  and 
  

   female 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  plumage 
  there 
  is 
  little 
  difference. 
  The 
  birds 
  were 
  killed 
  the 
  

   latter 
  end 
  of 
  November 
  last, 
  and 
  I 
  procured 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  27th 
  of 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   iag 
  month." 
  

   Stercoearius 
  antarcticus, 
  Gray, 
  Gen. 
  of 
  Bird?, 
  III., 
  p. 
  653. 
  

  

  A 
  living 
  example 
  in 
  my 
  possession, 
  obtained 
  at 
  Waikanae, 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  

   Island. 
  (See 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  X., 
  p. 
  207.) 
  

   Stercorarius 
  parasiticus. 
  Duller, 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  p. 
  268. 
  

  

  Three 
  more 
  examx)les 
  have 
  been 
  obtained 
  since 
  the 
  capture 
  mentioned 
  

   in 
  my 
  work. 
  

   DioiiEDEA 
  CAUTA, 
  Gould, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  Part 
  VIIL, 
  p. 
  177. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Hutton 
  added 
  this 
  bird 
  to 
  the 
  New 
  Zealand 
  avifauna, 
  on 
  the 
  

   authority 
  of 
  a 
  specimen 
  captured 
  at 
  Blueskin 
  Bay, 
  in 
  Otago, 
  and 
  in 
  last 
  

   year's 
  volume 
  of 
  Transactions, 
  I 
  described 
  very 
  fully 
  an 
  adult 
  female, 
  taken 
  

   on 
  the 
  beach 
  near 
  the 
  Wellington 
  Pilot 
  Station, 
  and 
  brought 
  to 
  me 
  alive. 
  

  

  