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Fam. MELIPHAGIDiE. — Mr. T. Hunt, who has lived on Pitt Island for more than thirty 
years, in a letter to the press dated the 5th of September last, states that the Zosterops (to which he 
applies the name of Fish-eye) appeared there and on Chatham Island about three weeks after the 
great Australian fire known in local history as Black Thursday *. 
As fully explained at pp. 83, 84, the nests of this species exhibit a considerable amount of 
individual variation, but the typical character is always the same, and this is well illustrated in the 
subjoined drawing of one of these pensile cups fixed in a sprig of fern. 
As will be seen from the accompanying sketches, the Tui and the Korimako construct their nests 
on the same principle ; but the fondness for gaily coloured feathers (as specially mentioned at p. 91) 
is confined to the latter bird. 
Prosthemaclera novce zealandice. Anthornis melanura. 
The Stitch-bird ( Pogonornis cincta ), which less than fifteen years ago was comparatively plentiful 
* He mentions the further circumstance that the House-Sparrow, the Linnet, and the Blackbird have all come over to the 
Chatham Islands from New Zealand (a distance of 300 miles) and are now so numerous as to threaten to become a nuisance to 
the agriculturist. 
