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Capt. F. W. Hutton on certain 
Both our species of Cormorants are found sparingly about 
the brackish lakes of this district; Graculus sinensis, the rarer 
of the two, frequents the Amblangodde Lake, a large sheet of 
water mentioned more than once in this paper. 
Note .—Since commencing these notes, which have been 
much delayed owing to pressure of work, illness, and two 
changes of stations, I have added to my list of Baptores, by 
observing Pandion haliaetus as late as the 3rd of May making 
its way northward, and by procuring specimens of Accipiter 
virgatus in the low country fifteen miles from Galle. This 
latter is a rare species in Ceylon; and the Osprey has only, 
so far as I am aware, been seen once before in these parts. 
In visiting a large tract of hill-forest, hitherto unexplored, 
lying in the subsidiary ranges of the Morowa-Korle group 
of mountains, and attaining a height of about 1700 feet, I 
found Eulabes ptilogenys as low down as 600 feet above the 
sea-level, and Zoster ops ceylonensis as low as 1500 feet. 
Galle, 10th May, 1873. 
UjS ..27J. 
IY.— Notes on certain Birds of New Zealand . 
By Capt. F. W. Hutton. 
Although fully recognizing the value to ornithologists of Hr. 
Butler's handsome work on the birds of New Zealand, espe¬ 
cially in his determination of Thinornis rossii as the young of 
T. novce-zealandiae, and in his identification of Gallinagopusilla 
with G. aucklandica, I wish to point out what I consider to be 
certain inaccuracies that I have noticed in it, and also to record 
my dissent from some of the opinions expressed therein. 
I have in these notes followed Hr. BulleFs nomenclature, 
but I do not agree with it in all cases. 
SCELOGLAUX ALBIFACIES. 
I cannot agree with Hr. Butler's remark that “ the extinc¬ 
tion of the native rat has been followed by the almost total dis¬ 
appearance of this singular bird,” nor with the conclusion that 
he draws from it ; for I have elsewhere pointed out (Trans. 
N. Z. Inst. v. p. 230) that there is no evidence that an indi- 
