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Family Meliphagide—Honey eaters. 
Genus—Anthochaera. 
9. Anthochaera carunculata, Lath. 
Wattled Honey-eater—This species is included in the 
Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand, as a specimen is stated 
to have been killed at Matakane. It is found in Queensland, 
N. S. Wales, Victoria, and S. and W. Australia. 
Egg ovoid; reddish buff, very thickly dotted with markings 
of deep chestnut, umber, and reddish brown, interspersed with 
a number of indistinct marks of blackish grey; pinkish buff, with 
reddish brown and grey specks towards the larger end. Length 
one inch three lines, with a breadth of ten and a-half lines. 
Genus—Pogonornis. 
10. Pogonorntis cincta, Dubus. 
Stitch-bird, Ihi—This shy and now rare honey-eater is sel- 
dom met with. It may be surely considered as one of the 
scarcest of the native birds. In the Wellington Museum was a 
nest and egg collected in the woods above the Kaiwarawara 
stream, near Wellington. This structure had thin shallow walls ; 
was built of sprays, on which were arranged fibres and rootlets 
of tree-ferns ; fine grass leaves were used for the lining, over 
which was placed cow hair. It measured across the top four 
inches nine lines; diameter of cavity, two inches four lines ; 
depth, one inch four lines. It was figured in my notes On the 
Birds of New Zealand, Part II., Trans. N.Z. Institute, Vol. 3. 
Through the kindness of the late Mrs. Meinertzhagen I received 
from Waimarama a beautiful specimen, which is now in my col- 
lection ; a careful measurement gave similar dimensions to those 
ot the nest before mentioned. 
Egg rather oval shape, somewhat pointed at each end; the 
whole surface clouded over with pale rufous brown. Length 
nine lines, breadth seven lines. 
Genus-—Prosthemadera. 
11. Prosthemadera Nove Zealandi@, Gm. 
Parson-bird, Poe-bird, Tui, Koko.—Often builds under the 
shelter of Rabdus twines, which many of us have learnt to fear or 
respect as the bush lawyer, or just beneath the wide-spreading 
fronds of tree ferns. More than once I have found it near the 
top of a matipo (AZyrsine), several times ina manuka (Lepfosper- 
mum), Pittosporum, &c.; sometimes the nesting-place has been 
in a shady gully, at others near the sea-shore, at distances varying 
from six to thirty feet above the ground. The nest is large, 
made of slender sprays ; intermixed with these are mosses, and 
often the brown shining scales of the silver tree-fern (Cyathea); the 
lining of fine grasses. It measures across the walls at top, nine 
inches ; diameter of cavity three and a-half inches; depth two 
inches. Of late years some nests have had tufts of wool inter- 
woven in the walls. Eggs vary in form, usually ovoid ; they are 
