24 Bangs — A New Bell-Bird from Auckland Island. 



the small New Zealand species the head is paler, a little less extensively 

 shining and the color metallic-violet. 



Measurements. — Type, adult <?, wing, 9<>; tail, 90.5; tarsus, 28; ex- 

 posed culmen, 15. No. 175,193, U. S. Nat. Mus., topotype, adult d\ wing, 

 94; tail, 92; tarsus, 29; exposed culmen, 14.5. Averages of adult males 

 of A. melanura are, wing, 88; tail, 84; tarsus, 25.5; exposed culmen, 14, 

 while one fully adult male of A. melanocephala affords the following: 

 wing, 100; tail, 96; tarsus, 34; exposed culmen, 15.5. 



