By S. H. SWAYNE. 
T he Genus Nestor, -wliicli has been generally considered to 
be intermediate between the Parrots and Cockatoos, 
appears to have a very limited range, being at present confined 
to New Zealand. Gould, in bis “ Birds of Australia,” says, 
that two species only are known, one Nestor Hypopolius or 
Meridionalis, found in New Zealand, and the other Nestor 
Productus formerly in Phillip Island, a small island about 5 miles 
in circumference, near Norfolk Island, between New Zealand and 
New Caledonia ; but that the Phillip Island species was no 
longer to be found there, and his description and drawing of the 
bird seems to have been taken from a living specimen, in the 
possession of Major Andrews, of Sydney. Gould appears not to 
have known the Nestor Notabilis, a species found in the Middle 
Island of New Zealand. The Phillip Island species, Nestor 
Productus, differed from the others in the extraordinary develop- 
ment of its long sickle-shaped beak, the upper mandible of which 
projected far below the lower one. In the two other species the 
development of the beak is less marked. 
In Nestor Productus the general colour of the upper part of 
the body was brown ; the head and back of the neck mottled with 
gray, each of the feathers being bordered by a darker shade. 
The under part of the body, rump, and under tail coverts, deep 
red ; the cheeks, throat, and chest yellow, in some places tinged 
with red. 
