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  Peockllaru 
  mollis, 
  Gould, 
  Ann. 
  and 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  Vol, 
  XIII., 
  p. 
  363. 
  

   Dr, 
  Finsch 
  lias 
  added 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  our 
  list 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  captured 
  hy 
  the 
  Novara 
  Expedition. 
  After 
  what 
  has 
  been 
  said 
  

   above, 
  the 
  identification 
  (in 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  measurements) 
  may 
  be 
  open 
  to 
  

   question, 
  as 
  between 
  this 
  species 
  and 
  Procellaria 
  affinis. 
  

  

  Procellaria 
  CJ3RULEA, 
  Gmcl,, 
  Sys. 
  Nat., 
  I., 
  p. 
  560. 
  

  

  In 
  my 
  account 
  of 
  this 
  species"'^ 
  I 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  scarcity 
  of 
  specimens 
  in 
  

   the 
  colony, 
  the 
  Auckland 
  Museum 
  alone 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  possessing 
  it. 
  

  

  I 
  received 
  last 
  year 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  very 
  perfect 
  plumage 
  from 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  H. 
  

   Robsou 
  of 
  Cape 
  Campbell. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  readily 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  scapulars 
  being 
  edged 
  and 
  the 
  tail- 
  

   feathers 
  broadly 
  tipped 
  with 
  white, 
  

  

  Priocella 
  ANTARCTICA, 
  Gmclin, 
  Syst. 
  Nat., 
  I,, 
  565; 
  Sharpe, 
  App, 
  Zool. 
  

   Ereb. 
  and 
  Ter., 
  1875, 
  37. 
  

   I 
  am 
  in 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  propriety 
  of 
  admitting 
  this 
  species 
  into 
  our 
  

   avifauna, 
  the 
  specimen 
  described 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Hectorf 
  having 
  been 
  shot 
  in 
  lat. 
  46°- 
  

   S., 
  long. 
  118° 
  9" 
  E., 
  or 
  "about 
  1,000 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  Tasmania, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   latitude 
  of 
  Otago." 
  It 
  was 
  included 
  among 
  the 
  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  ' 
  in 
  

   the 
  "Voyage 
  of 
  the 
  'Erebus' 
  and 
  ' 
  Terror;' 
  " 
  and 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  five 
  

   specimens 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  captured 
  in 
  our 
  

   seas, 
  but 
  the 
  evidence 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  complete. 
  

  

  Pn^roN 
  RUBRicAUDA, 
  Bodd.; 
  Gould, 
  Birds 
  of 
  Austr., 
  VII., 
  pi. 
  73, 
  

  

  The 
  claim 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  be 
  considered 
  a 
  New 
  Zealand 
  inhabitant 
  is 
  

   fully 
  discussed 
  in 
  my 
  paper 
  of 
  the 
  12th 
  January 
  last 
  (Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  

   Vol. 
  X., 
  pp. 
  219-220). 
  

  

  Plotus 
  NoviE-HOLLANDi^, 
  Gould, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  part 
  XV., 
  p. 
  34. 
  

  

  The 
  occurrence 
  of 
  this 
  Australian 
  species 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand 
  was 
  recorded 
  

   by 
  me 
  in 
  October, 
  1874 
  (Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  VII, 
  p. 
  217). 
  

  

  Phalacrocorax 
  finschi, 
  Sharpe, 
  Ibis. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  has 
  distinguished, 
  under 
  the 
  above 
  name, 
  a 
  specimen 
  

   from 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  differing 
  from 
  P. 
  hrecirostris 
  in 
  

   having 
  a 
  white 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  wing-coverts. 
  (See 
  my 
  notes, 
  on 
  a 
  hitherto 
  

   undescribed 
  form, 
  in 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst,, 
  Vol. 
  VIIL, 
  p. 
  197, 
  and 
  Vol. 
  IX., 
  

   pp. 
  838-340). 
  

  

  Phalacrocorax 
  chalconotus,| 
  Gray, 
  Voy. 
  Err. 
  and 
  Terr., 
  Birds, 
  p. 
  20, 
  pi. 
  21. 
  

   Dr. 
  Finsch 
  has 
  identified 
  an 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  forwarded 
  to 
  him 
  

   by 
  Prof. 
  Hutton, 
  from 
  Otago. 
  

  

  * 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  p. 
  306. 
  t 
  Trans. 
  N.Z. 
  Inst., 
  Vol. 
  IX., 
  p. 
  464. 
  

  

  X 
  My 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand," 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  type 
  in 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  