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plumage? I have never actually taken the young bird from the nest of the Eiroriro ; but I 

 have obtained several specimens, just after quitting the nest, with the rictal membrane still 

 well developed, and in none of these has there been any sign whatever of the spotted markings. 

 I have described the plumage in this stage in the 'Birds of New Zealand' (vol. i., p. 133). 



Captain Hutton continues : "In the Chatham Islands the birds come and go at about 

 the same dates as in New Zealand. Here we have distinct evidence that the birds travel 

 from the north to the south, and then back again to the north. They have not been seen 

 to leave the islands, but it is impossible that they could remain during the winter and yet 

 escape the eyes and snares of the Maoris. Also, although the birds have not been seen to 

 leave, Mr. T. H. Potts told me that he once saw the arrival of a Shining Cuckoo at the 

 Chatham Islands. It was so tired when it landed that it allowed him to pick it up in 

 his hand, although, under ordinary circumstances, it is a very shy bird." 



Order COCCYGES.! 



[Family CUCULIM3. 



CUCULUS SATU11ATUS. 



(AUSTEALIAN CUCKOO.) 



Cuculus saturatus, Horsf., J. A. S., Beng. xii., p. 942 [1843.] 



I am indebted to Captain Hutton for the opportunity of adding this species. Writing to 

 me on April 21st, 1902, he says : " Last February the groom of Mrs. E. Halcombe, at Lake 

 Te Anau, shot a specimen of the Australian Cuckoo — Cuculus intermedins. I have seen the 

 skin, and Mrs. Halcombe assures me that she saw the specimen in the flesh." 



The range of this species ia from Siberia and Southern Japan, throughout China and 

 the Indian Peninsula, through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea, New Caledonia, and 

 Australia. This is the first instance, so far as I know, of its occurrence in New Zealand. 



Order PASSEEIFOEMES.] 



[Family XENICHXE. 



ACANTHIDOSITTA CHLORIS. 



(EIFLEMAN.) 



Acanthidositta chloris (Sparrm.), Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. i., p. 113. 



The Maoris apply different names to the male and female of this species ; the former bein£ 

 Kikimutu and the latter Moutuutu. 



