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Canon Tristram's collection, now in Liverpool, had been brought from Lord 

 Howe's Island in cages and were kept as pets in Norfolk Island ; and then, as 

 the value of exact data in those early days of our science was unknown, 

 the references were made to the place whence the specimens were seen or 

 brought. One thing however is certain, the bill in Ferdinand Bauer's sketch 

 is evidently a monstrous growth produced by captivity, for Latham expressly 

 describes the bill of Governor Hunter's bird as ending in a long thin point. 

 The differences of N. norfolcensis are the dull crimson sides of face, chin, 

 and throat ; dull green head and hind neck, and the total absence of bars on 

 the tail. The plate given herewith is a reproduction of the Liverpool bird, 

 with the bill of Ferdinand Bauer's sketch added, as this is wanting in that 

 bird, and in the corner a head of the specimen of N. productus, purchased for 

 the Tring Museum, when the late Mr. Wallace's Museum at Distington, 

 Cumberland, was dispersed. 



I have carefully examined the three fine specimens of Nestor productus 

 in the British Museum, and the conclusion I have come to is that the bird 

 described by Gould as the adult of his N. productus was an abnormal 

 specimen, and was in relation to normal N. productus what the aberrations 

 called " superbus" and "esslingi" are to N. meridionalis. The bills of the 

 British Museum specimens are very different. The one from the Bell 

 collection has the long, thin bill, but it is at least half-an-inch to three- 

 quarters shorter than those in the Tring and Florence specimens. 



Habitat : Philip Island and probably Norfolk Island. 



One in Tring, three in London, one in Florence, two in Vienna, one 

 in Prague, two in Leyden, one in Amsterdam, are known to me. 



The two specimens in the Vienna Museum were both bought in 1839. 

 One from Ward, with a short bill, brown chest and throat, and a very wide 

 yellow breast-band. The other from Baron von Htigel, which has a long 

 bill and very red cheeks and chin. 



