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a little victim at almost every turn, and all tlie wliile uttering a 

 pleasant twitter. When hurt or alarmed it immediately closes its 

 pretty fan, and silently flies off in a direct course, disappearing in 

 the denser foliage/' — Buller. 



35. Ehipidura fuliginosa. Sparrm. 



Black Fantail. Tiwakawaka. 



Head and neck, grejisli-black ; back, breast, and abdomen, dark olivaceous-brown ; 

 quills, dark brown ; tail, black ; a white spot over each ear. The white spot is sometimes 

 absent. 



L., 6-25 ; W., 2-8 ; B., -4 ; T., "72 ; Tail, 3-75. 



Egg. — Same as R. Jlabellifera. 



Hah. — South Island; Chatham Islands. 



" This dark-coloured species is restricted to the South Island, 

 where it is far more common than the preceding one." — Buller. 



Several instances of its accidental occurrence in the North Island 

 "are recorded in the Transactions of the N.Z. Institute. 



LANIID.E. Shrikes. 



Bill, rather long, straight, arched above, sides compressed at tlie tip, which is emar- 

 ginated, and generally liooked ; tail, long ; tarsi, strong ; toes, moderate ; hind toe broadly 

 padded beneath. 



Graucalus. Gavier. 



Bill, strong, broad at the base ; nostrils, lateral, large, and rounded, partly covered 

 by pi'ojeeting feathers ; wings pointed ; first feather short, third the longest, I'ourth and 

 fifth longer than second; tail, slightly emarginated, and rounded on the sides; tarsi 

 rather longer than the middle toe ; outer toe longer than tlie inner one. 



Australia. 



36. Graucalus melanops. Lath. 



SlIEIKE TnEUSH. 



Light ash-grey ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts, white ; a broad band of black from the 

 bill through tlie eye j middle tail-feathers dark grey, lateral ones brownish-black, tipped 

 with white ; quills, brownish-black, edged with white ; bill and legs black. 



L., 13-5; W., 8; B., 1-25: T., 11. 



Hah. — New South Wales. An occasional visitant in New Zealand. 



CORVID^ Crows. 



Bill, sti'ong, more or less conical, base covered with projecting feathers ; legs and feet, 

 strong. 



GrLAUCOPIS. Gml. 



Bill, short, much arched ; tongue, plicate, quadrifid, fringed at the tip ; wings, rounded; 

 tail, long, graduated, each feather ending in a point ; tarsi, longer than the middle toe; 

 hind toe, long. 



New Zealand only. 



37. Glaucopis wilsoni. Bp. 



Blue-wattled Ceow. Kokako. 

 (Plate XII.) 

 Dark bluish-grey, with tlie lower part of the back and abdomen tinged with rufous- 

 brown ; tail, olivaceous-black ; a black line fi'oni the nostrils to the eye ; chin, black ; 



