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NESOCOCCYX. — NESTOR. 
Bill strong, more powerful than in the genus Turdus; gonys nearly straight, 
with a small notch near the tip in the upper mandible; culmen gradually descen- 
ding from the base; nostrils seated in an oval depression at the base of the upper 
mandible; wings short, somewhat concave; first primary very small, the 3. 4. 5. 
equal and the longest; tail rather shorter than in Turdus and the feathers rather 
pointed; tarsi very strong, toes strong and much lengthened, particularly the hinder 
one; front of the tarsi scutellated; under part entire. 
eremita Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 165. — Turdus eremita. 
NESOCOCCYX (Cuculidae. — vyjgoç insula, xoxxuç cuculus) Cabanis, Mus. Heine. 
1862. IV a . 79. — Coccygus Boie. 
ferrugineus Cabanis, a, a. 0. = Coccygus ferrugineus Gould. 
NESONETTA (Anatidae) Gray, Genera Birds 1844. III. 627. = Mergus Lin. % 
Bill shorter than the head, the width and elevation at the base equal, the 
culmen gradually sloping to the tip, which is armed with a moderate sized nail, 
the sides compressed and of equal breadth throughout; the lamellae of the interior 
margins of the upper mandible small and widely set, strongest near the base; 
the nostrils near the base, lateral and oval. Wings very short and pointed, with 
the second quill the longest. Tail short and wedgeshaped, with the end of the 
stem of each feather base and rigid. Tarsi robust, about two thirds the lenght 
of the middle toe. Toes strong, with the outer toe shorter than the middle and 
all the fore toes united by a rail web; the hind toe short, elevated and some- 
what lobed. 
aucklandica Gray, Genera Birds III. Tb. 169. Fig. 4; Voy. Erebus Terror 
Tb. 17. = Mergus australis H J. 
XESOPELIA Sundevall, Meth. pat. Avium 1873. 99. = Chamaepelia gallo- 
pagoensis. 
NESOPSAR Gray, Handl. Birds II. 34. = Neopsar Sclat. 
NESORHYNCHUS masesus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869. 147. Tb. 12. = 
Spermophila masesus. 
XESTOR (Psittacidae. — Nestor nom. propr.). — Lesson, Traité Ornith. 1831. 
190. — Finsch, Papageien II. 882. 
Synon.: Centrourus Swains. — Centrums Strickl. 
Schnabel im allgemeinen wie bei Domicella, aber noch stärker seitlich zu- 
sammengedrückt und mit viel weiter überhängendem längeren Spitzentheile ; die Sei- 
ten des Oberschnabels mit einer aberundeten, aber deutlichen Längsleiste. Nackter 
Augenkreis undeutlich. Flügel lang, spitz, an Innen- und Aussenfahnen verengt. 
Schwanz mittelmässig , breit, gerade; die breiten Federn am Ende klammer förmig. 
— 5 Specc. 
australis Gray, Genera Birds II. — Nestor meridionalis Gray. 
Esslingi Souancé, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1856. 223. == Nestor meridionalis 
Gray. 
hypopolius Wagler, Monogr. Psitt. 696. == Nestor meridionalis. 
meridionalis Gray, Dieffb. New Zeal. App. II. 193. — Finsch, Papag. II. 
892; Ibis 1869. V. 379; Journ. Ornith. 1872. XX. 98. [Nova Zealandia. 
Psittacus meridionalis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 333. 
Psittacus Nestor Latham, Ind. Ornith. I. 110. — Bourjot, Perr. Tb. 68. 
Psittacus australis Shaw, Lever. Mus. 87. 
Psittacus hypopolius Forster, Descr. anim. 72. 
Nestor hypopolius Wagler, Monogr. Psitt. 696. — Jardine, Psittac. 121. 
Tb. 12. 
Nestor novae Zealandiae Lesson, Traité Ornith. 191. 
Centrourus australis Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 303. 
Nestor notabüis Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. 
Nestor montanus Buller, Finsch Papag. II. 961. 
Nestor occidentalis Buller, Ibis 1869. V. 40; Transact. New Zeal. Inst. II. 
386. 391. 
