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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on for the tardiness oftheir proceedings. Few of the native birds can be considered as very cheerful songsters, butthere seems to us quite a mournful cadence in the note of this bird. No. 33.—Petroica albifrons, Gml.(See also Yol. ii., p. 60.) The nest and eggs repi-esented on Plate XI. are now dejDosited in theCanterbury Museum. This bird, as a songster, is perhaps unequalled byany native warbler, and we think scarcely surpassed by any of the woodlandmelodists of the old country ; in its habits it is exceedingly tame ; at a stationon the Upper Rangitata, where it abounds, it is bold enough to enter thehouse, but there, it must be remembered, it is in the back country, wherethe Englishmans familiar evil spirit, the cat, as yet is comparatively scarce. No. 34.—Anthus Nov^ Zelandi^, Gml.(See also YoL ii., p. 61.) In the last volume of Transactions, mention was made of the occurrenceof White Laiks near the Waikerukini, in this province; they are not TRANS. N.Z. I NSTITUTE. VOLIEEPIZL
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If&si of MOHOUA ALBICILLA. IP^mfe£ a<?3f.e!-I^^.64«^^E^i-^^-tf(l 77 unfrequently met with in that neighbourhood. On Oct. 5, we saw a specimenthat permitted a tolerably close inspection, this was on the track across theplains, within two miles of the place where those were observed last year; wehave examined a beautiful specimen that was procured in that district. Is itprobable that a marked variety will be established 1 Birds of this species thathave been rescued from hawks have been so completely prostrated by terrorthat for some time they have been wholly incapable of flight, on being gentlytossed in the air falling helpless to the ground. It is very sociable in some ofits habits ; we have counted seven or eight bathing together in a creek ; it isusually observed in scattered companies. No. 35.—ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS, Lath. (See also Vol. ii., p. 61.) It was suggested in my previous notes on this species, that possibly thesweet song of this bird was peculiar to pairing time

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