2.—Birds and Insects.

94.	Hooopoë-feathers Fam. Upupidæ; Heteralocha Acutirostris. A beautiful bird); black shining plumage: tips of toil feathers while; bright orange wattles. "That it possesses strong affinities to the Hoopoes is certain."—Dr. BulleR (history of New Zealand Birds, now publishing.)
103.	Wingless locust…..Deinacrida heteracantha. From some rough notes on this (not attractive) insect I made years ago I extract the following:—"This curious locust is found in soft decaying trees; its body and hind legs are in shapt like a grasshopper's its colour is pale reddish or page 508Yellowish white beneath, and up the edges of the abdominal rings, head, and back, deep brown. The head of the male is set on perpendicularly, with a hard round fore bead, like an elephant's, the head being with the jaws two-thirds as long as the rest of the body. Eyes staring and prominent, two-thirds as long as the rest of the body. Eyes staring and prominent, two very long antennæ" (sometimes, say's Dieffenbach," with the body reaching to fourteen inches) "between them; them; the labrum long and large; from beneath it raises and lets fall like a portcullis, over the two enormous toothed mandibles hanging on each side surving towards each other at their ends; black and an eighth of an inch in breadth and thickness each, which increase the resemblance to the elephant's head, &c. (Much more about geniculated palpi, 'fleshy tongue,'&C.) Tibiæ of hind legs have a row of strong spines at the back, on each side, projecting outwards. It has a large stomach opening into a gizzard, which is of really beautiful structure; more than one-eighth of an inch in diameter, bluish-white in colour, oval-shaped, hard; cut open, shews interior surface fluted with a number of toothed or serrated ridges meeting at the ends like lines on a currant or meridian lines on a globe; the green be getable-looking wet ground contents of stomach evidently passed through it. These creatures hop feeble, and being teased, run towards the teasing object as if butting with the head. They smell like shrimps or shell fish."
105	Green parrakee.Psittacidæ; Two species, Platycercus Auriceps and P. Novæ Zealandiæ. First has a yellow, second a crimson crest. "General plumage bright grass green."—Buller.
105	Kingfisher Alcedinidæ; Halcyon vagans.
105	Ichneumon fly Ichneumonidæ. The species alluded to is about the size and shape of a wasp; thorax pure golden: abdomen bright ruddy brown: both very hard.
119.	Cuttlefish Cephalopods are common about the coasts of New Zealand
131.	Crayfish three or four inches long are caught in abundance in the central lakes in manner described.
138.	'Tui,' the. Par-son-bird or Poe'-bird 'of Copt. Cook Melliphagidæ; Prosthemadera Novæ Zealandiæ. "Splendid bird – woods resound with its tuneful notes." Knight's Museum of Animated Nature.
140.	Hawk Falconidæ. The most common species appears to be the Cercus Gouldi; or New Zealand Harrier.—Buller.
159.	Cicada Cicadidæ; Cicada cingulata or Cruentata (?) These beautiful insects abound in the islands—biggest one and half inches long, near half inch broad at the head
168	Night-hawk or New Zealand Owl Strigidæ; Spiloglaux Novæ Zealandiæ: (Buller). The "morepork" of the colonists.
173.	Wild-pigeon (See note to p. 223.)page 509
194.	Jelly-fish. C. Acalephæ; O. Pulmonigrada; G. Medusæ. Size of dinner-plate and smaller; abound in the bays and har-hours; some beautifully marked on the upper surface of disc with radiating scralet lines.
202.	Korimako Melliphagidæ; Anthornis melanura.
208.	Lizard Scincidæ; Hinulia N. Zealandica (Gray).
209.	Phasmid. The"Walking Stick." O. Orthoptera; G. Phasmidæ Several species in New Zealand; mostly admirable imitations of withered twigs or sticks; one with like delicate leaves. Some are brilliant green, covered with thorns-like new shoots of some plants. In my rough notes, alluded to above, I find the following description of some of these very interesting insects I kept under a tumbler;—"These creatures are slow in their movements; leave any limb in the position you place it in; legs sticking up in the air like sprays of branches. The forelegs are joined to the body by a sort of foot-stalk thinner and tinged with red exactly like by a sort of foot-stalk thinner and tinged with red exactly like the petioles or leaf-stalks of some plants; Bodies and limbs long and slender; three to six of seven inches in length-from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thickness; colour, pale brown inclined to grey, like incipient thorns. The female laid several eggs, eighth of an inch length, oblong, grey, or French white in colour, dry and looking exceedingly like seeds of plants; but crack in breaking and are full of a yellow liquid like yolks of bird's eggs. If the outer skin of the egg dried and broke off on being touched-the yolk had hardened into a gold-coloured grain. They thrust out their forelegs like antennnæ, though they have two of these lattter. As they walk they frequently stop and sway their stick-like bodies, on their legs as if on springs, from side to side, with a slow regular motion, ceasing gradually, as if shaken by a light wind. Stride along pretty quickly if much handled or alarmed. But they will remain a considerable time in any attitudes they may be thrown into, upon their own or each others' backs, perfectly motionless; with their long slender legs up in the air; mimics to the last they have nine abdominal rings, not very strongly marked, but like small bamboo. Eyes of the colour of their bodies; feet hooked. They will stand upright on two hind legs and tail if so placed, their arms (as you are tempted to call them) or rather their middle pair of legs stretched our and upwards, motionless; their forelegs and antennæ held perpendicular and close-joined as if a continuation of their perpendicular and close-joined as if a continuation of their legs high off the ground as if on stilts. These phasmids lived a fortnight as ever. Then the smallest was found dead; limp and as if sucked dry-part if its neck eaten away by its companions. So the rest were killed with spirits of wine. Though looking so dry externally they seem full of a thin watery sap-like fluid."
213.	Prophyrio (See note to p. 223.)
218	White Crane Ardeidæ; Herodias flavirostris (?) (Kotuku) The Rev. R. Taylor mentions a native proverb that "A man only sees it once in a life-time;" but it is much less uncommon in the Middle Island.page 510
223.	Stock-doves Columbidæ; Columba spadicea, Chestnut-shouldered Pigeon "All the upper part and throat of this beautiful bird are of a changeable hue, with rosy-copper reflections running into brilliant iridescent tints,"—Knight's Museum of Animated Nature.
223.	Sultana - birds (Pukeko) F. Rallidæ; G. Porphyrio (the' Poule Sultane' of the) French-Pollo Sultano, Ital.), Porphyrio Melanotus, ib. The New Zealand species has crimson bill; red legs; rich deep-blue breast, rest of plumage velvet-black.
223.	Cuckoo F. Cuculidæ; Chrysococcyx lucidus (Gray), Cuculus Nitens (Forster).
223.	Parrots Trichoglossidæ; G. Nestor. Dr. Búller gives nine varieties, some splendidly coloured. They are "true flowers-suckers.
224.	Albatross Procellaridæ; Diomedea exulans.
232.	Kiwi, the Apteryx Struthionidæ Three species.I Apt. Australis, 2. A. Mantelli, 3. A. Owenii. "So extraordinary a bird that the existence of a species possession such a combination of anomalous characters was long denied, wings, trifling rudiments buried beneath general plumage, discovered with difficulty; nostrils at tip of long beak; no vestige of a tail; feathers long, lanceolate, only a single plume from each quill."—Knight's Museum, &c., from descriptions in Transactions of the Zoological society, by Professor Owen and others.
239.	Whitebait Eleotris basalis. Abundant.
265.	Cormorant. Pelicanidæ; Grauculus punctatus, &C. "Social birds, and build their nests many together on high trees overhanging rivers and coasts."—Gray.
274.	Oyster-catcher G. Hæmatopus.
274.	Avocet G. Recurvirostra.
282.	Moa Struthionidæ; G. I. Dinornis, 3-toed; 2. Palapteryx, 4-toed; S. 13 or 14 described by Prof. Owen. Gigantic wingless birds the massive bones of which are dug up in many parts of the country; nine to ten feet six inches high according to Owen—thirteen or fourteen feet according to others—Kiwi (note to p. 232), apparently the only living representative of the family.
289.	Bittern Ardeidæ; Boraurus Melanotus (Gray), Ardea [B.], Australis (Cavier). "Total length two inches."
301.	Honey-bird Several species of Melliphagidæ common: including the—
301.	Mocking-bird or "Tui" ( Note to p. 138). So called by Captain Cook: and the—page 511
301.	Bell-bird or Korimako (Note to p. 202.)
308.	Grebe Colymbidæ; G. Podiceps; S.P. cristatus (?) A beautiful crested grebe is found about the fakes in the Middle Island.
314.	Dargon flies Libellulidæ; Petalura Carovei. Total length four inches five lines to four inches eight lines—Gray. This species barred black and white. Other commonest species or varieties are about inches long—bright scarlet or bright blue.
347.	Blue crane Ardeidæ; Herodias Matuku?
385.	Mutton-fish Haliotis Iris. "There are found in colossal specimens." Hochstetter.
474.	Sea-windflower Sea-anemones; Actiniæ. Common on some of the rocky coasts.
481.	'A slender beettle' O. Coleoptera; F.Longicornes; Callichroma (Calli-prason) Sinclairi. Gray—who calls it, "This delicately-pretty little Longicorn bettle.
487.	Animalcule Allusion to one of the Diatomaceæ (vegetable or animal ) placed under a microscope.

The above chiefly taken from the list of the Fauna of New Zealand, by Dr. Gray of the British Museum, appended to Dieffenbach's New Zealand, vol. ii.

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