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were labelled "D. exulans, Sth year,' and exceptionally 

 fine D. exulans rothsdiildi Mathews, though freely vermi- 

 culated on the upper-back, were also considered " 5th 

 year." 



Procelsterna c^rxjlea cesterea (Gould). 



An unrecorded occurrence for the mainland of New 

 Zealand (the second) would be the bird with the data : 

 " Anous cinereus, May, 1883, ^, Waipu, North New 

 Zealand." 



Anotjs stolidtjs (Linne). 



Through a misreading, Buller included this species 

 in the Supplement, Vol. I,, p. 162. In the Emu, Vol. X., 

 1910, p. 10, I pointed this out, and in the Reference 

 List we noted this while rejecting it. 



In the Reischek collection is included a skin labelled 

 " Sterna - 1885 $ Ostk. Nord New Zealand." This is 

 a rough skin which has been pulled off by some one 

 and procured afterwards by Reischek, who has not 

 re-prepared it. 



There seems to be no reason to doubt this record, 

 and consequently Anous stolidus (Linne) can be admitted 

 as having once occurred in New Zealand. The specimen 

 is in immature-plumage, so that I could not decide 

 whether it was referable to A. stolidus gilberti Mathews 

 (Birds Austr., Vol. IL, p. 405, 1912) or to A. s. unicolor 

 Nordmann. 



Gygis alba royajSta Mathews. 



Hitherto unrecorded from the mainland, Reischek's 

 collection contains two birds labelled : " III. 1883. 

 Waipu, Nord New Zealand." They are sexed (^ and $. 



CCENOCORYPHA AUCKLAISTDICA (Gray). 



In our " Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand " 

 (Ibis, 1913, p. 261), Mathews and I used the genas-name 

 Coenocorypha for the New Zealand " Snipes," and admit- 

 ted four subspecies, accepting Rothschild's tristrami 



