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the French Pass. They do not appear to have landed on D'Urville Island, 

 and the nearest anchorage of the "Astrolabe" in Tasman's Bay was 

 Croiselles Harbor. D'Urville Island thus separates the type locality of 

 macularia from minor. 



Stephens' Island is in Cook's Strait and is thus described by Buller: 

 " Lying two miles to the north-eastward of the northern extremity of 

 D'Urville Island, and rising abruptly from the sea to a height of a thou- 

 sand feet, is Stephens' Island, only about a square mile in extent, and 

 more or less wooded on its sides."* Stephens' Island is known to orni- 

 thologists as the place where Travcrsia lyalli was found and exterminated. 

 Buller gives the following measurements in inches of eggs in the Nelson 

 Museum: South Island, 1.3 x 1.05 1 and 1. 6 x. 95; Stephens' Island, 1.25 

 x.75.t 



Notes on the plumage of Turnagra capensis capensis. 



I have examined for the purposes of this paper, twenty-three skins of 

 Turnagra, seven in the British Museum, five in the Carnegie Museum, § 

 three in the U. S. National Museum, and eight in my own collection; of 

 these only eleven have localities on the labels, and the sex marks are, of 

 course, unreliable, but enough material has been compared to separate 

 the ages, which does not appear to have been done clearly before. 



Adults.— Large birds, distinguished by sooty black upper and lower 

 mandibles (in dried skins), tarsus not quite so dark, back raw umber 

 becoming brighter on the rump. The breast feathers are dark citrine, 

 with large white centres, producing a regularly streaked efiect; the mid- 

 dle and greater coverts only slightly edged with chestnut, which is absent 

 in more worn plumage. 



Immature.— Upper mandible lighter than in the adult, lower mandible 

 Brussels brown, the tarsus raw umber in dried skins; back sepia, in 

 adults and immature birds a gray cast appears in worn plumage on the 

 head and hind neck but does not reach the back ; breast feathers pale 

 olive buflf in the centres, chestnut edgings of the greater and lesser coverts 

 greatly increased. This is the plumage figured by Buller, || who gives the 

 irides as yellow. 



Foim^.— Smaller birds, distinguished by beak and tarsus being wholly 

 Brussels brown in dried skins, breast lighter owing to the grayer edgings 

 to the feathers, many of the throat and neck feathers tipped or edged 

 with chestnut, exposed parts of the greater and lesser coverts chestnut, 

 producing a solid chestnut patch on the wing. A skin from the Jardine 

 Collection is marked "Irides gray." 



•Ibis, 1895, p. 236. 



t Birds of New Zealand, 2d ed., 1888, p. 32. 

 J Birds of New Zealand, Suppl. 1905, p. 136. 



$ I have compared these with my series through the kindness of Mr. W. E. Clyde 

 Todd. 



11 Birds of New Zealand, 2d ed., 1888, pi. V. 



