Okdee PASSERES.] 
[Pam. CORYHLE. 
GLAUCOPIS CINEEEA. 
(ORANGE- WATTLED CROW.) 
Cinereous Wattle-bird , Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 364, pi. xiv. (1781). 
Glaucopis cinerea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 363 (1788). 
Cryptorhina callceas, Wagl. Syst. Av. Cryptorhina, sp. 5 (1827, ex Forster, MSS.). 
Callceas cinerea, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 74 (1844). 
Native name. — Kokako. 
Ad. similis G. wilsoni, vix saturatior, paullo minor: carunculis aurantiacis ad basin tantum cyaneis distinguendus. 
Adult. Similar in plumage to G. wilsoni, but with less of the brown tinge on the lower parts, and the tail-feathers 
blackish towards the tips. It is readily distinguished, however, by the colour of the wattles, which are of a 
rich orange, changing sometimes to vermilion, and blue at the base. Irides blackish brown ; bill and feet 
black. Total length 16 inches ; wing, from flexure, 6'25 ; tail 7 ; bill, along the ridge 1‘25, along the edge 
of lower mandible 1 ; tarsus 2 - 5 ; middle toe and claw 2T5 ; hind toe and claw T5. 
Partial albino. There is an interesting specimen in the Colonial Museum, which was obtained by Mr. Henry 
Travers at the foot of Mount Franklin, in the Spencer ranges, in January 1869. The general plumage as in 
ordinary specimens; hind head, sides and fore part of neck, and the whole of the back largely marked with 
pure white : one or two of the quills in each wing are either wholly or partially white, and there are a few 
scattered white feathers on the sides, abdomen, and thighs. 
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This species is the South-Island representative of Glaucopis wilsoni, to which it bears a general 
lesemblance, except in the colour of its wattles and its rather smaller size. Like the North-Island 
species also, its distribution is very irregular : thus, in Otago, Dr. Hector found it very plentiful on 
Mount Caigill and in a strip of bush near Catlin river, but never in the intervening woods ; while in 
the Nelson provincial district, as I am informed by Mr. Travers, its range is exclusively restricted to 
certain well-defined localities, although the berries on which it is accustomed to feed abound every- 
where. It is said to he very abundant on some of the wooded ranges of Westland, and Sir J. von Haast 
has obtained numerous specimens from the Oxford ranges in the provincial district of Canterbury. 
I ought to add that, in the summer of 1867, one of these birds was seen by Major Mair at Te 
Mu, near Lake Tarawera, in the North Island. He followed it for some distance, in the low scrub, 
and got near enough to obtain a good view and to observe its bright orange wattles. 
Ihe habits of this bird differ in no essential respect from those of the preceding species. 
Mr. Buchanan, of the Geological Survey, has mentioned to me a very curious circumstance frequently 
observed by himself at Otago : he has seen these birds travelling through the bush on foot, Indian 
fashion, sometimes as many as twenty of them in single file, passing rapidly over the ground by a 
succession of hops, and following their leader like a flock of sheep ; for, if the first bird should have 
occasion to leap over a stone or fallen tree in the line of march, every bird in the procession follows 
suit accordingly ! 
I saw a pair of caged ones at Hokitika, in the possession of Mr. M c Nee, who told me that he had 
snared them in the woods with perfect ease. They were apparently quite reconciled to confinement, 
hopping from perch to perch in a very lively manner, and occasionally meeting to utter a low chuckling 
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