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Obs. In the ' Voyage of the Erebus and Terror/ where both Thinornis nova zealandia and the so-called TJi. 

 rossii are figured, the latter is represented with the basal interdigital web, and the former without it, an 

 error for which the artist is doubtless responsible. 



This handsome Wader appears to be of very rare occurrence. Forster's original specimen was 

 obtained at Queen Charlotte's Sound, where, as he states, it was called Tuturuatu by the natives. 

 Mr. Percy Earl found a pair on the ocean-beach near Port Chalmers, and records it " a very rare 

 species " in that locality. The Colonial Museum possesses examples obtained more recently from 

 the Hauraki Gulf, in the Province of Auckland. 



There can be no doubt, I think, that the so-called Thinornis rossii, of which there is a single 

 specimen in the British Museum, brought by the Antarctic Expedition from Auckland Island, is 

 the young of the present species ; and I have given a figure of it in that character. 



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