BY ALFRED J. NORTH. 



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distinct from C. novce-zealcmdice, being larger and Laving a more 

 robust bill ; the crimson colour on the forehead and vertex more 

 extended, and the spot on the ear-coverts hut slightly indicated by 

 obscure crimson, as pointed out by Gray in his description of C. 

 rayneri* and by Count Salvadori in his description of the type 

 specimen of C. cooki,'\ instead of the streak across the eyes termi- 

 nating on the ear-coverts iii deep crimson as in C. novce-zealandice. 



In the "Old Collection" of the Australian Museum are two 

 mounted specimens similar to those procured by Dr. Metcalfe, 

 labelled ^^ Flatycercus, New Zealand," but the localities are not 

 authenticated, and there is no doubt that they were obtained on 

 Norfolk Island. 



I have never seen any Cyanorhamphus from New Zealand like 

 the four specimens just referred to, and I share with Count 

 Salvadori the belief that the wrong habitat was given by day to 

 C. cooki, the name under which the Norfolk Island species of 

 Cyanorhamphus must now bo known. C. rayneri will therefore 

 rank as a synonym of C. cooki, which is to be regretted, for 

 ornithologists who have only Gray's misleading description of C. 

 cooki will never be able to recognise in it the species of Cyanor- 

 hamphus which inhabits Norfolk Island. 



Appended I have given the measurements of C. cooki and C. 

 no vce-zealandioi. 



Measurements of Cyanorhamj^hus cooki . 



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* G. R. Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 228. 

 + Brit. Mus. Cat. Vol. xx. 1892, p. 585. 



