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The statement of Mr. Cheeseman, that he took eggs on Three 

 Kings Islands is erroneous. The eggs belonged to a Synoecus, and the egg 

 given to Sir Walter Buller is now in my collection. 



I have, however, also two eggs of Coturnix novaezealandiae t brought 

 home by Dr. H. O. Forbes. They have a brownish-white shell, covered and 

 washed all over with deep brown patches and lighter brown underlying 

 markings. They show distinctly the character of Quails' eggs, but, besides 

 being much larger, are easily distinguished from eggs of Coturnix coturnix. 

 They measure 343 by 25 and 34*5 by 21*3 mm. 



Of birds I have in my collection : One $ ad. Shot at Whangarei, 

 North Island, by Major Mair, in 1860. (This is the specimen figured in 

 the Second Edition of the " Birds of New Zealand." I bought it with 

 Sir Walter Buller's collection eighteen years ago. By a curious lapsus 

 memoriae Sir Walter Buller, in the " Supplement," p. 35, in 1905, states 

 that this bird was in his son's collection.) One 2 ad. and one $ in the 

 first year's plumage, shot by Messrs. Walter Buller and E. French near 

 Kaiapoi, South Island, in the summer of 1859. 



Seven specimens are in the British Museum, the types in Paris, three 

 in Cambridge, a pair in Christchurch in New Zealand, some in the Canterbury 

 Museum, and doubtless many others, most of which have never been recorded. 



