Potts. — New Zealand Birds. 



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Art. XXX.— O^i the Birds of New Zealand. By T. H. Potts, F.L.S. 



(part IV.) 



\_Read hefore the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th December, 1873.] 



List of Birds described in this Paper. 



Note. — The species are numbered in conformity with the lists given in Parts I., II., and 

 III., in Trans. N.Z. Inst., II., Art. viii. ; III., Art. xi. ; and V., Art. xx. 



No. 



58. Chrysococcyx lucidus. 



59. Carpophaga novse-zealandise. 

 65. Charadrius obscurus. 

 Go. Anarhynclius fi-ontalis. 

 65. Thinornis novse-zealandise. 



85. Ortygometra affinis. 



86. „ tabuensis. 

 89. Ocydromus fuscus. 

 89. Gallinago pusilla. 



102. Eudyptes. 

 108. Ossifraga alba. 



123. Diomedea melanophrys. 



124. Lestris catarractes. 

 126. Larus dominicanus. 

 131. Sterna alba. 



In offering another small budget of notes on native birds, the writer has to 

 express his regret that they are but fragmentary. Unfortunately notes on 

 birds in their wild state are necessarily less complete than those which can be 

 gathered from the fluttering prisoners in the condemned cell of an a-sdary. 



The writer having been laid xmder contribution by Dr. Buller, in his 

 "History of the Birds of New Zealand," is compelled to refer to some 

 mistakes as to matters of fact in the " History," or else he might be thought 

 to concur therein ; as to theories, they are the property of anyone to shape 

 according to fancy. 



No. 1. — Falco nov^-zealandi^, Gml. 

 Quail-hawk. 



Those ornithologists who have written on the fauna of New Zealand have 

 held conflicting opinions on the Falconidce. Attempts have been made to 

 prove that one species only inhabits these islands ; on the other hand, evidence 

 has been offered that the fauna includes at least two species. The question 

 involved — of much interest to those who care for the natural history of this 

 country — has its chief difficulty in the absence of such marked or distinctive 



No 







1. 



Falco novse-zealandise. 





A. 1. 



„ ferox. 





3. 



Athene novse-zealandiae. 



A. 



8. 



Neomorpha gouldi. 



B. 



18. 



Acanthisitta chloris. 



C. 



19. 



Orthonyx ochrocephala. 





B. 19. 



J Certhiparus albicilla. 

 i Orthonyx albicillus. 







A. 



23. 



Gerygone. 



B. 



29. 



Petroica macrocephala. 





36. 



Keropia crassirostris. 



A. 



37-8. 



Bhipidura. 





40. 



Glaucopis cinerea. 





47-50. 



Platycercus. 





51. 



Nestor meridionalis. 



B. 



57. 



Eudynamis tahitiensis. 





