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Family XENICORNITHIM. 
Genus XENICORNIS I. & M. 
Xenicornis Iredale & Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xlvi. p. 76, 
Feb. 25th, 1926. Type (by original designation) : Xenicus 
gilviventris Pelzeln. 
Xenicus Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 31, 1855, before April 18th. Type 
(by original designation): Motacilla longipes Gm. Not Xenica Westwood, 
Gen. Diurn. Lep. vol. in. p. 387, 1851. 
Xenicornis longipes (Gm.). Bush-Wren 
Distr. —New Zealand. 
Xenicornis longipes longipes (Gm.). (14-452.) 
Motacilla longipes Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 979, April 20th, 
1789: Dusky Sound (South Island). (Fig. Duller, 1st ed. pi. 12; 
2nd, pi. 12 ; Ereb. & Terr. pi. 3.) 
Distr. —New Zealand (South Island). 
Xenicornis longipes stokesii (Gray). 
Xenicus stokesii Gray, Ibis, July 1862, p. 219: Rimutaka Hills, 
North Island. (Fig. Duller, Suppl. pi. xi.) 
Distr. —New Zealand (North Island). 
Xenicornis gilviventris (Pelz.). (14-453.) Rock-Wren. 
Xenicus gilviventris Pelzeln, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 316, 
1867: New Zealand. (Fig. Buller, 1st ed. pi. 12; 2nd, pi. 12.) 
Xenicus haasti Buller, Ibis, Jan. 1869, p. 37 : Canterbury Alps, South Island, 
New Zealand. 
Distr. —Alps of South Island, New Zealand. 
Family TRAVERSIIDiE. 
Genus TRAVERSIA Rothsch. 
Traversia Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iv. p. x, Dec. 29th, 
1894. Type (by monotypy) : T. lyalli Rothschild. 
Traversia lyalli Rothsch. Steplien’s-Island Wren. 
Traversia lyalli Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iv. p. x, 
Dec. 29th, 1894: Stephen’s Island, Cook’s Straits. (Fig. Buller, 
Suppl. pi. 10.) 
Xenicus insularis Buller, Ibis, April 1895, p. 237, pi. 7: Stephen’s Island. 
Distr .—Stephen’s Island, New Zealand. (Extinct?) 
