Contents. Transactions. I.—Miscellaneous. pages Art. I. Notes on Two Maori Calabashes, with Carved Wooden Necks, called Tuki or Ko-ano-ano. By Dr. Newman 1–4 II. On the Maori Method of preparing and using Kokowai. By Archdeacon Walsh 4–10 III. Moriori Carving on the Trunks of Karaka-trees. By A. Hamilton 11–13 IV. Maori Marriage Customs: being Notes on Ancient Maori Customs, Ritual and Sociological, connected with Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce; together with some Account of the Levirate, and of many Superstitious Beliefs and Ancient Animistic Myths connected with the same, as held and preserved by the Maori Peoples of the Tuhoe Tribe. By Elsdon Best 14–67 V. The Sparrow Plague and its Remedy. By A. Bathgate 67–79 VI. Note on the Veracity of the Returns of Age in the Census of 1901. By Professor Segar 80–84 VII. On Certain Decimal and Metric Fallacies. By R Coupland Harding 85–111 II.—Zoology. VIII. The Kohoperoa or Koekoea, Long-tailed Cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis): An Account of its Habits, Description of a Nest containing its (supposed) Egg, and a Suggestion as to how the Parasitic Habit, in Birds has become established. By Robert Fulton, M.B., C.M., Edin 113–148 IX. Description of a New Fish. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S 148–149 X. On the Occurrence of Centrolophus in New Zealand. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 149–150 XI. Revision of the New Zealand Members of the Genus Phorocera. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 150–158 XII. Two New Flies By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 158–154 XIII. On a New Weta from the Chatham Islands. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 154 XIV. Description of a New Blow-fly from Campbell Island. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 155 XV. On the Occurrence of the Curlew-Sandpiper (Ancylochilus sub-arquatus) in New Zealand. By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 155–156 XVI. On the Anatomy of Paryphanta fumosa, Tenison-Woods. By R. Murdoch 156–161.