8. TATARE 525 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail-feathers without dusky cross bars. 



a'. Feathers of upper surfiice paler-edged, so as to 



give a mottltd appearance. 



a". Outer tail-feathers browner, with white or 



yellowish-white ends. 



a'". Larger: culmeu r4inch; general colour 



olive-brown, with yellow edgings to the 



feathers ; below yellow lotu/irostris, p. 525. 



b'". Smaller: culmenO'75iuch; general colour 

 above ashy grey with whitish margins ; 



below whitish pistor, p. 527 . 



b" . Outer tail-feathers entirely pale yellow .... mendance, p. 526. 



1 syrinx, p. 527. 

 relisei, p. 528. 

 cequinociialis, p. 528. 



b. Tail-feathers with dusky cross bars marianncB, p. 528. 



Canon Tristram has recently shown that the genus Tatare ought 

 to be placed with the Warblers and not with the Timeliine birds as 

 it is here located : and he goes so far as to refer all the species of 

 Tatare to the genus Acrocephalus ; but on comparing the species of 

 Tatare with Acrocephalus tunhides, the type of the latter genus, 

 although I find that they closely resemble each other, yet I think 

 they are not generically identical. Acrocephalus, for instance, 

 besides having a much shorter bill, possesses a very much more 

 pointed wing, the distance between the primaries and the secondaries 

 being much more than the length of the hind toe and claw ; whereas 

 in Tatare the wing is much more obtuse, and the distance between the 

 primaries and the secondaries is less than the length of the hind toe 

 and claw. 



Mr. Seebohm having admitted that he was wrong in leaving out 

 the members of the genus Tatare from the fifth volume of the present 

 work, I include it here near Bernieria, the most Acrocephaline of 

 the Timeliidge, in order that the species may be recorded in the 

 ' Catalogue of Eirds.' 



1. Tatare longirostris. 



Long-billed Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/>i. ii. pt. i. p. 67 (1783). 



Sitta caftra, Spurrman, Mus. Carlss. i. pi. 4 (1786). 



Turdus longirostris, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 823 (1788, e.v Lath.). 



Sitta otatare. Less. Voy. Coquille, i. p. 666, pi. 23. fig. 2 (1823). 



Tatare otaitensis, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 317 (1831) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 224 (18.50) ; Cass. U.S. Expl. Expect, p. 159 (1858) ; Gray, Cat. 



B. Trap. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 13 (1859) ; Set. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 9. 

 Tatare fuscus. Less. Pev. Zool. 1842, p. 210, 1845, p. 449. 

 OrioUis musai, Porster, Descr. Anim. p. 163 (1844). 

 Thryothorus otatare, Peale, U.S. Pxpl. Exped. viii. p. 88 (1848); 



Ilartl. Arch. Natvrg. 1854, p. 99. 

 Tatare longirostris. Gray, Gen. B. 'in. App. p. 8 (1849) ; id. Cat. B. 



Trap. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 14 (1859) ; Pelz. Novara-Reise, Vog. 



p. 60 (1865) ; 'Finsch 8c Hartl Faun. CenfraJpolyn. p. 66 (1867) ; 



Von Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 24. 



