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tingid ■with yellow ; sides olive-brown, washed with yellow ; wing- 

 feathers dark olive-brown, dusky on their inner webs ; tail-feathers 

 and their npper coverts bright rufous, paler on the under surface, 

 the two middle ones tinged with olive-lirown ; irides yellow ; bill 

 and feet dark brown. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 

 5-25, tarsus 1-25. {Buller, 1. c.) 



YoHiir/. Birds of the first year differ in having the feathers at the 

 base of the upper mardible, the tips of those covering the crown and 

 sides of the head, the small feathers fringing the eyelids, and a broad 

 zone on the u])per part of the breast briglit rufous ; the primary and 

 secondary wing-coverts are also largely tipped with the same colour ; 

 and the grey of the underparts is darker. (Bulltr, 1. c.) 



Hah. Confined to the southern portion of the North Island of Xew 

 Zealand, becoming extremely rare north of "^'aikato, according to 

 Dr. Buller. 



2. MYIOPHONEUS. 



Type. 



Myiophonus, Temm. PL Col. ii. livr. 29 (182.3) M. flavirostris. 



Anenga, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. P&9, (1831) M. cyaneus. 



M_\iophaga, Less. t. c. p. 395 (1831) M. cyaneus. 



Bange. From Turkestan southwards to Afghanistan and the whole 

 of India and Ceylon, throughout the Burmese countries and China ; 

 apparently absent in the Malayan Peninsula, but reoccurring in Java 

 and Sumatra. 



Key to the Species. 



a. AVith white spots at the end of the median wing- 

 coverts. 

 a'. With the wing-coverts no blighter than the 

 back : feathers of upper surface with =lightly 

 glistening ends, but very indistinct ; bill 

 yellow, horn-brown along the culmen .... Jtaiirostris, p. 7. 

 v. With a .shoulder-spot of brilliant purpli.sh 

 blue formed by the lesser wing-coverts; 

 glistening tips to feathers of upper surface 

 very distinct. 

 a". Bill horn-brown along the culmen, yellow 

 on the under mandible and along the 



edge of the xipper one temmiiicki, p. 7. 



b". Bill entirely blackish ceeruleus, p. 9. 



h. With no white spots at the end of the median 

 wing-coverts. 

 c'. Upper siu-face, including the tail, blue or 

 black, or washed with brown (in immature 

 birds). 

 c". Larger : no bright shoulder-spot : feathers 

 of liead and back, as well as chest and 

 throat, with glistening tips ; bill yellow, 

 horn-brown on culmen and base of upper 

 mandible i-ugmii, p. 9. 



