1. TUrXAGRA. 5 



Loxia turdus, Fovst. Descr. Anhn. p. 85 (1844). 



Otagoii turdus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 374 (1850). 



Ceiopia crassirostris, Simder. Krif. om Sparrm. p. 9 (1857); Potts, 



Jmirn. Linn. Soc. xi. p. oOo (1873). 

 Turnagra turdus, Grai/, Rond-l. B. i. p. 284, no. 4200 (1869). 

 Otag-on crassirostris, Sitndev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 19 (1872). 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-brown, tbe head rather 

 more earthy brown, -tt-ith obscure lighter margins to some of the 

 feathers under certain lights ; the frontal plumes streaked with 

 rufous ; wing-coverts olive-brown like the back, tipped with rufous 

 and margined with the same colour near the end of the outer web ; 

 primary-coverts olive-brown, with a very narrow rufous edging; 

 quills dusky brown, externally like the back, the primaries paler 

 brown on the outer web ; upper tail-coverts bright rufous ; centre 

 tail-feathers olive-brown, the remainder rufous, light brown near the 

 tip of the inner web and along the outer one, this light brown colour 

 diminishing in extent towards the outer feathers : lores dull whitish, 

 surmounted by a little spot of rufous, caused by the rufous streak to 

 the basal frontal plumes ; round the eye a ring of light rufous ; 

 feathers below the eye light rufous, edged with ashy ; ear-coverts 

 dark brown, narrowly streaked with pale rufous or whitish ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body white, much mottled with ashy-browu 

 edges to the feathers, imparting a streaked appearance ; many of the 

 feathers also washed with rufous ; centre of breast and abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts white, the latter with faint indica- 

 tions of light-brown edges to the feathers ; sides of body brown, 

 streaked with dull white centres to the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries rufous ; quills brown below, pale rufous along the 

 inner web ; " bill and feet dark brown ; iris yellow "' (Bailer), 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmenO-8, wing -i'To, tail 4'6, tarsus l4. 



YoKwj. Differs from the adult in having the throat and chest, as 

 well as the sides of the face, washed with rufous. 



Hah. Formerly very common in the South Island of New Zealand, 

 but now nearly extinct. 



a. S ad., b. J jun. sk. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



c. Ad. St. New Zealand. New Zealand Co. [P.]. 



2. Turnagra tanagra. 



Otagon tanagra, Schlef/el, Xederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 190 (1865). 

 Turnagra bectori, Bitller, His. ltiU9, p. 39; Oray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 284, no. 4262 (1869) ; BuUer, B. Xeic Zeal. p. 135, pi. 14. 



tig. 1 (1873) : Sharpe, Voy. Erehiis 4" Terror, App. p. 26 (1875) ; 



Buller, Man. B. Sew Zeal. p. ^o, pi. xi. (1882). 

 Turnagra tanagra, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 284, no. 4201 (1869). 

 Keropia tanagra, Finsc/i, J. f. O. 1870, p. 323. 



Adult. Crown of the head, hind neck, and upper parts generally 

 clear olive-brown ; throat pure white : breast and abdomen ashy 

 grey, darker on the former, the abdomtn and the under tail-coverts 



