I  feel  constrained  to  include  the  present  bird,  although
on  somewhat  negative  evidence.  Dr.  Buller  will  not  admit
it  into  his  work,  and  this  unfortunate  little  Owl  has  at
present  no  abode  in  the  New  Zealand  list,  notwithstanding
its  orthodox  title.  The  type  is  at  present  in  Leiden,  and
although  no  one  has  proved  the  presence  of  a  Sco'ps  in  New
Zealand,  the  species,  as  Professor  Schlegel  remarked  to  me,
seems  to  agree  with  no  other  member  of  the  genus,  and
may,  after  all,  really  come  from  the  country  whose  name  it
bears.  At  the  close  of  his  article  on  the  two  larger  Owls
Dr.  Buller  writes: — "The  natives  are  acquainted  with
another  species,  which  they  describe  as  being  very  diminu-
tive in  size  and  strictly  arboreal  in  its  habits.  This  is  no
doubt  the  bird  indicated  by  EUman  as  Strix  2}arvissima
{Zoolorjid,  1861).  Mr.  J.  D.  Emys  informed  me  that  he
once  captured  an  Owl  '  standing  only  live  inches  high,'
and  that  it  was  perfectly  tame  and  gentle.  Mr.  Potts
records,  on  hearsay  evidence,  several  instances  of  the
occurrenfe,  in  Canterbury,  of  an  Owl  '  about  the  size  of  a
Kingfisher.'  This  bird  may  prove  to  be  the  same  as
Bonaparte's  Scops  novce  zcalandice,  as  suggested  by  Dr.
