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INTRODUCTION 



Nesonetta aucklandica 

 Ocydromus P sylvestris 



? ,! ■>• Puffinus newelli 



Teles piza flaviceps .... 



^•>n. Nesochen sandvicensis 

 Pareudiastes pacificus 

 Nesomimus trifasciatus 



Phalacrocorax harrisi 

 ^ Meleagris americana 

 Conurus carolinensis 

 Pseudgryphus californianus 

 Amazona guildingi 

 Campephilus principalis 

 Pyrrhula pyrrhula murina 

 Stringops habroptilus 

 Anthornis melanocephala 

 Gallinago pusilla 

 v > w Thinornis novaezealandiae 

 1 Amazona augusta .... 

 Amazona bouqueti .... 

 Amazona versicolor .... 

 Hemignathus lanaiensis 



Auckland Island. 



Lord Howe's Island. 



Hawaiian Islands. 



Hawaii. 



Hawaii. 



Samoa. 



Charles ? and Gardener 



Island, Galapagos Islands. 



Galapagos Islands. 



United States. 



Southern United States. 



California. 



St. Vincent. 



Southern United States. 



Azores. 



New Zealand. 



Chatham Islands. 



Chatham Islands. 



Chatham Islands. 



Dominica. 



St. Lucia. 



Dominica. 



Lanai, Sandwich Islands. 



Many of my readers will, I fear, find fault with me for having bestowed 

 names on a number of forms, known only from fragments of bones, single 

 bones, or two or three bones. Especially will they, I fear, blame me for 

 doing this when these forms have been described by other authors who have 

 refrained from giving names. My reasons for doing so are very simple: in 

 such cases as Dr. Parker's species which are fully described, but quoted 

 under the formula Pachyornis species A or Anomalopteryx species B, the 

 danger lies in different authors using the same formula for quite other 

 species. In the case of others, where an author fears to name a form, but 

 gives the distinctive characters and quotes only Casuarius species or 

 Emeus sp., unless the author and page are quoted, confusion must 

 arise, and so in both cases I have thought it easier for reference and 

 also more concise to name all these forms which have been described or 

 differentiated without a binomial or trinomial appellation. I have, however, 

 refrained from doing so in the foregoing list of Pleistocene species in the 



