APRIL 5.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Parrakeet—
Antipodes Island parakeet (Cyanorhamphus unicolor).
Auckland Island parakeet (Cyanorhamphus novae-zealandiae aucklandicus).
Chatham Island parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus auriceps forbesi).
Kermadec Island parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus novae-zealandiae cyanurus).
Orange-fronted parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus malherbei).
Red-fronted parrakeet (kakariki) (Cyanorhamphus novae-zealandiae).
Yellow-fronted parrakeet (Cyanorhamphus auriceps).
Parson-bird (tui) (Prosthemadera novae-zealandiae).
Penguin—
Big crested penguin (Eudyptes chrysocomus sclateri).
Blue penguin (korora) (Eudyptula minor).
Campbell Island crested penguin (Eudyptes chrysocomus filholi).
Crested penguin (tawaki) (Eudyptes chrysocomus pachyrhynchus).
King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonica).
Rock-hopper penguin (Pygoscelis papua).
Royal penguin (Eudyptes schegeti).
Tufted penguin (Eudyptes chrysocomus).
White-flippered penguin (Eudyptula albisignata).
Yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho or hoihoi) (Megadyptes antipodum).
Petrel—
Black petrel (toanui) (Procellaria parkinsoni).
Black-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta melanogaster).
Black-capped petrel (Pterodroma externa).
Black-winged petrel (Cookilaria nigripennis).
Blue petrel (Halobaena caerules).
Brown petrel (Prioifinus cinereus).
Cape pigeon (Daption capensis).
Chatham Island petrel (Cookilaria axillaris).
Cook’s petrel (titi) (Cookilaria cooki).
Diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix).
Grey-backed storm petrel (Garrodia nereis).
Grey-faced petrel (Pterodroma macroptera).
Giant petrel, or nelly (Macronectes gigantea).
Kermadec Island mutton-bird (Pterodroma neglecta).
Rainbird (Pterodroma inexpectata).
Silver-grey petrel (Priocella antarctica).
Whale-bird (Prion vittatus).
Whale-bird (whiroia) (Prion desolatus and Prion turtur).
White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis).
White-faced storm petrel (Pelagodroma marina).
White-headed petrel (Pterodroma lessoni).
Wilson’s storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus).
Pigeon (kereru) (Hemiphaga novae-zealandiae).
Chatham Island pigeon (Hemiphaga chathamensis).
Pipit (pihoihoi, ground-lark) (Anthus novae-zealandiae)
Antipodes Island pipit (Anthus novae-zealandiae steindachneri).
Auckland Island pipit (Anthus novae-zealandiae aucklandicus).
Chatham Island pipit (Anthus novae-zealandiae chathamensis).
Plover—
Eastern golden plover (Charadrius dominicus).
Lapwing (Vanellus cristatus).
Sand plover (kukuruatu) (Thinornis novae-zealandiae).
Wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis).
Rail—
Auckland Island rail (Rallus muelleri).
Dieffenbach’s rail (Chatham Island) (moeraki) (Nesolimnas dieffenbachii).
Mangare rail (Cabalus modestus).
Marsh-rail (koitareke) (Porzana affinis).
Pectoral rail (mohopereru patata) (Hypotaenidia philippensis).
Swamp-rail (putoto) (Porzana plumbea).
Rifleman (tititipounamu) (Acanthisitta chloris).
Robin—
Chatham Island robin (Nesomiro traversi).
North Island wood-robin (toutouwai) (Miro longipes).
Snares robin (Nesomiro traversi dannefordi).
South Island alpine-robin (Miro australis bulleri).
South Island wood-robin (toutouwai) (Miro australis).
Saddleback (tieke) (Creadion carunculatus).
Sandpiper (Heteropygia maculata).
Shag—
Auckland Island shag (Phalacrocorax colensoi).
Blue shag (Stictocarbo steadi).
Bounty Island shag (Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi).
Bronze shag (Phalacrocorax chalconotus).
Campbell Island shag (Phalacrocorax campbelli).
Carunculated shag (Phalacrocorax carunculatus).
Chatham Island shag (Phalacrocorax featherstoni and Phalacrocorax onslowi).
Little Black shag (phalacrocorax sulcirostris).
Spotted shag (Stictocarbo punctatus).
Stewart Island shag (Phalacrocorax stewarti and Phalacrocorax huttoni).
Shearwater (hakoakoa) (Puffinus reinholdi)—
Allied shearwater (Puffinus assimilis).
Long-tailed shearwater (Puffinus bulleri).
Pink-footed shearwater (Puffinus carneipes).
Wedged-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus).
Snipe—
Antipodes Island snipe (Gallinago Aucklandica tristrami).
Auckland Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica).
Chatham Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica pusilla).
Common snipe (Gallinago coelestis).
Snares Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica huegeli).
Southern merganser (Merganser australis).
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris).
Stilt-plover—
Black stilt-plover (Hypsibates novae-zealandiae).
Pied stilt-plover (Hypsibates leucocephalus).
Stitch-bird (hihi) (Notiomystis cincta).
Swan—
White swan (Cygnus olor).

Takahe (Notornis hochstetteri).
Tern—
Black-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna albistriata).
Caspian tern (tara nui) (Hydroprogne caspia).
Grey noddy (Procelsterna caerulea).
Little tern (Sterna nereis).
Sooty tern (Sterna fuscata).
Swallow-tailed tern (Sterna vittata).
White-capped noddy (Megalopterus minutus).
White-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna striata).
White tern (Gygis alba).
White-winged black tern (Hydrochelidon leucoptera).
Thrush—
North Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra tanagra).
South Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra crassirostris).
Tomtit (miromiro)—
Auckland Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala marrineri).
Chatham Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala dieffenbachii).
North Island tomtit (Myiomoira toitoi).
South Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala).
Tropic bird (raukura) (Phaethon rubricauda).
Turnstone (Morinella interpres).
Warbler—
Chatham Island warbler (Pseudogerygone albifrontata).
Grey warbler (riroriro) (Pseudogerygone igata).
Superb warbler (or blue wren) (Malurus cyanochlmys).
Woodhen—
Black woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus brachypterus).
Brown woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis).
North Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis greyi).
South Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus hectori).
Stewart Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis scotti).
Wren—
Blue wren (or superb warbler) (Malurus cyanochlmys).
Green wren (Xenicus longipes).
Rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris).
Stephen Island wren (Traversia lyalli).

SANCTUARIES.
It is illegal, without the authority of the Minister of Internal Affairs, to take any dog or firearm on to a sanctuary, or to discharge any firearm or explosive thereon, or to do anything likely to cause any bird or animal to leave a sanctuary.
Every person who unlawfully takes or kills any bird or animal on a sanctuary is liable to a fine of £10 for such offence, and to a further fine of £1 for each animal or bird so taken or killed.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 46/16/33.)

Open Seasons for Imported Game and/or Native Game in certain Acclimatization Districts.

IN exercise of the powers vested in him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand doth thereby declare open seasons for imported game and/or native game, of the kinds hereinafter specified, in the acclimatization districts specified hereunder, except in the areas shown under the heading “Excepted Areas,” during the periods set forth in connection with each district, subject in all cases to the following general conditions and subject to the special conditions specified in connection with each district. Any person taking or killing any imported game or native game otherwise than in terms of this notification (including the general conditions herein-after set out and the special conditions specified in connection with any acclimatization district), is liable on conviction to a fine of £20.

GENERAL CONDITIONS.

1. No person shall commence shooting earlier than one hour before sunrise or continue shooting later than one hour after sunset on any day during the open season concerned.
2. (a) No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys nor shall use more than fifteen artificial decoys at any one time (except in the Auckland Acclimatization District, where the number of artificial decoys shall be not more than ten), and no such artificial decoys shall be spread over a greater area than thirty yards square.
   (b) No person shall place any artificial decoys within 100 yards of the nearest of any other artificial decoys set out by any other person.
   (c) In the Southland Acclimatization District not more than three persons shall take or kill or attempt to take or kill native game over the same set of decoys at any one time.
   (d) No person shall in any way place during the period in that place of the open season, hereby declared, use in connection with the taking or killing of imported and/or native game, any form of decoying game by the aid of corn, wheat, oats, barley. maize, or any other grain or any products of grain or any other food placed by any person in or near the margin of any river, stream, lagoon, pond, swamp, estuary, or other water.
3. No person shall use or cause to be used any motor-vehicle in connection with the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game : Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of any motor-vehicle for the purpose of travelling either generally or to or from a rendezvous.
4. No person shall use or cause to be used for the purpose of taking or killing any imported or native game any unmoored floating stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo, or any boat artificially dressed or covered in any way.
5. No person engaged in shooting from any shelter, mai-mai, mudhole, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall use more than one gun : Provided that a person so engaged may have a second gun in a condition not immediately suitable for use, and held for use only in the event of the first gun becoming damaged or otherwise unfit for use.