556 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. [Aves. 



Order LIMICOLAE, 

 Fam. CHAEADKIIDAE. 

 Thinornis, Gray, 1845 ? 

 Thinornis rossii, Gray. (Auckland Island plover.) 



Thinornis rossii Gray, Voy. " Erebus " and " Terror,' Birds, 1846,* p. 12, 

 pi. xi. 

 Not seen by members of the expedition. 

 Hob. — Auckland Islands. 



LiMOSA, Brisson, 1760. 

 Limosa novae-zealandiae, Gray. (Godwit.) 



Limosa novae-zealandiae, Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1847, p. 570. 



Captain BoUons tells me that when he was ashore at Campbell Island collecting 

 birds and seals for the Christchurch Exhibition in 1906 he saw two godwits on the 

 shore, and that the shepherds informed him that they had haunted the vicinity for 

 some time previously. 



Hab. — Eastern Asia to New Zealand. 



Fam. SCOLOPACIDAE. 



Gallinago, Leach, 1816. 

 Gallinago aucklandica, Gray. (Snipe.) 



Gallinula aucklandica. Gray, List of Grail. Brit. Mus., 1844, p. 112. 



When crossing swampy ground both at the Snares and Auckland Island many 

 snipe were flushed ; they run quickly in and out of clumps of fern or tussock, and 

 if hard pressed they rise on the wing, but drop again after labouring a very few yards. 

 It is not impossible for one man to catch them unaided, as I proved, while by using 

 my fish-landing net I had no difficulty in securing a number, though the sport over 

 rough and treacherous ground was not without excitement. 



Hab. — Auckland Islands, and Snares (Gallinago huegeli, Tristram) ; Antipodes 

 Island {G. tristrami, Rothschild). 



Order G A V I A E. 



Fam. STERCORARIIDAE. 



Catharacta, Briinnich, 1764. 

 Catharacta antarctica, Lesson. (Sea-hawk, skua gull.) 



Lestris antarctica. Lesson, Traite, Ornith., 1831, p. 616. 

 The impudence and agressiveness of the sea-hawk surpasses anything I have 

 seen among wild birds, and it is this bird more than any other which I believe to be 



* This date is probably incorrect, and is copied from the Brit. Mus. Catalogue ; the reference to 

 Sterna frontalis is therein rendered as 1844, though it occurs on a later page of Gray's work. I cannot 

 now place my hand on Mr. Sherborne's " Dates of the Publication of the ' Voyage of the Erebus and 

 Terror.' " 



