Vol. XXVIII, pp. 121-124 May 27, 1915 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW TURNAGRA FROM STEPHENS' ISLAND, NEW 



ZEALAND. 



BY J. H. FLEMING. 



The Turnagra from Stephens' Island, New Zealand, appears 

 to differ subspecifically from the South Island Thrush and may- 

 be known as 



Turnagra capensis minor subsp. nov. 



Like Turnagra capensis capensis, but smaller; back brownish olive, 

 not raw umber as in capensis; concealed bases of the feathers of the back 

 lighter. 



Sparrnian's name capensis has been revived, and I think rightly, by 

 IMathews and Iredale,* who fix the type locality at Dusky Sound,! 

 South Island. The type of Tanagra capensis figured by Sparrman* is a 

 young bird similar to the last three birds in my table of measurements. 

 Gmehn's Turdus crassirostris ^ is based on a male and female "Thick- 

 billed Thrush" described by Latham ;|| one of the types, the male, is 

 still at Vienna ;]r and Dr. Sharpe's statement that the type is in the 

 British Museum ** is erroneous. He probably had in mind Forster's 

 drawing, plate 145, in the museum library, which is marked " Dusky 

 Bay, Queen Charlotte's Sound, April 4, 1773. "ft Sparrman was Fors- 

 ter's assistant on Cook's Second Voyage, and Latham described birds 

 then in the Leverian Museum from Cook's Voyage, it is therefore proba- 

 ble that the types are of the same origin if not the same birds. 



The type of Tanagra macularia of Quoy and Gaimardtt was taken, the 

 authors state, §§ on the South Island in the thick woods of the heights of 



* Ibis, 1913, p. 445. 



t Ibis. 1913, p. 202. 



i Mus. Carlson., 1787, pi. XLV. 



$Sygt. Nat. I. p. 815, 1789. 



II Gen. Synop. II, pt. I, p. U. pi. XXXVII, 1783. 



IT Ibis, 1873, p. 26. 



** Hist, of the Collections in the British Museum, Birds, p. 492, 190o. 



ft Hist, of the Collections in the British Museum, Birds, p. 194, 1906. 



tt Voy. de I'Astrol., Zool. I, 1830, p. 186, pi. 7, fig. 1. 



5$ Voy. de I'Astrol., Zool. I, 1830, p. 187. 



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