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Tyto alba (Aves: Strigidae): a deletion from the New Zealand subfossil record

Notornis, 30 (1), 15-21

P.R. Millener (1983)

Article Type: Paper

Bones of an owl, from Holocene dune sands in the North Cape area, North Island, considered by Scarlett (1967) to constitute the first subfossil record of the Australian barn owl (Tyto alba delicatula) in New Zealand, are shown to be those of the endemic laughing owl (Sceloglaux albifacies).

A petrel puzzle

Notornis, 30 (2), 166-167

R.B. Sibson (1983)

Article Type: Short Note

The lesser petrels of Antipodes Islands, with notes from Prince Edward and Gough Islands

Notornis, 30 (4), 283-298

M.J. Imber (1983)

Article Type: Paper

In 1978 at Antipodes Islands, breeding was confirmed and distribution of breeding sites was investigated for Snares Cape pigeons (Daption capense australe), subantarctic fairy prions (Pachyptila turtur subantarctica), soft-plumaged petrels (Pterodroma mollis mollis), subantarctic little shearwaters (Puffinus assimilis elegans) and grey-backed storm petrels (Garrodia nereis). Breeding seasons, habits and habitats at Antipodes Islands of petrels not exceeding white-chinned petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis) in size are described. Notes are included from Prince Edward and Gough Islands on some of these species studied in 1979.

Sexing black-backed gulls from external measurements

Notornis, 29 (1), 37-40

G. Nugent (1982)

Article Type: Paper

Six body measurements were taken from 283 adult and sub-adult black-backed gulls (Larus dominicanus) in Auckland, New Zealand. Sex was determined in 158 of these by dissection or chromosomal methods. Using measurements from these 158 birds a classification function was derived and used to assign sexes to the remaining 125 gulls. Discriminant analyses were then made on the measurements from all 283 birds to describe the sexual size dimorphism accurately and to derive a simple classification function for the routine sexing of birds in the field.

Patterns of variation and dispersal in the buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis) in the south-west Pacific, with description of a new subspecies

Notornis, 29 (2), 131-141

R. Schodde; R. de Naurois (1982)

Article Type: Paper

Geographical variation in the buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis) in the south-west Pacific (known as the banded rail in New Zealand) is reassessed in the light of the origin of island stocks and nomadism. Nomadism appears to have diluted divergent evolution on small islands and (sub) continental mainlands throughout the region, and from it lines of colonisation from mainland sources have been adduced. There appear to be no justifiable subspecies on mainland Australia, and others on islands in the Bismarck Sea are open to question; one new subspecies, G. p. tounelieri, is described from cays in the Coral Sea.

Aves Brasileiras

Notornis, 29 (3), 238-239

K. Wodzicki (1982)

Article Type: Book Review

Author:  Johan Dalgas Frisch. 1981. Vol. I, 351 pp. with an addendum Birds of Brazil, Identification Guide in the English Language, 15 pp. Dalgas-Ecoltec-Ecologia Tecnica e Comercio Ltda, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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