526 TmELHD^. 



Tatarea loB^rosti-is, Reichmh. Handh., Scansorice, p. 207. pi. dxxxiv. 

 figs. 3669-70 (18.53). 



Tatarea fusca, Rvichenb. t. c. p. 208 (1853). 



Hybristes lougirostris, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 16 (1872). 

 Adult. General colour above brown, mottled with olive-yellowish 

 margins to the feathers, the nimji more distinctly olive-yellow ; 

 wing-coverts brown, with broad yellowish margins, inclining to 

 white at the tips ; bastard wing and primary-coverts brown, nar- 

 rowly edged with olive-yellow : quills dark brown, margined with 

 pale olive-yeUow, tipped also with yellowish-white borders on the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts brown, margined with pale olive- 

 yellow ; tail-feathers brown, broadly tipped with yellowish white, 

 extending along the margin of the inner web ; crown of head brown, 

 more narrowlj' edged with pale olive-yellow ; lores, a narrow eye- 

 brow, feathers round the eye, and the ear-coverts pale yellow, with 

 brown on the upper margin of the latter ; cheeks and entire under 

 surface pale yeUow ; sides of neck yellow, streaked with brown ; 

 flanks slightly washed with brown ; thighs yellow, with dark brown 

 bases ; under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axiUaries yeUow ; 

 quills light brown below, the inner edge yellowish white. Total 

 length 8"3 inches, cidmen 1*4, wing 3'95, tail 3'4, tarsus 1-25. 

 Hah. Society Islands and Paumotou group in the Pacific Ocean. 



a. Ad. sk. Society Islands. Zoological Society. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Societv Islands. Pm-cbased. 



d. Ad. sk. [Society Islands.] Su- E. Belcher [P.]. 



2. Tatare mendanae. 



Acrocephalus mendanae, Tristr. Ibis, 1883, p. 43, pi. 1. 



Adult femcde. General colour above oHve-yeUowish, mottled 

 with the dark brown bases to the feathers and showing very 

 distinct margins of paler olive-yellow ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts rather paler olive-yellow ; upper tail-coverts 

 a little more dingy olive-brown, with paler olive-yellow tips ; 

 wing-coverts dark brown, edged and tipped with olive-yellowish, 

 rather more ashy on the bastard wing and primary-coverts ; quills 

 dark brown, edged with ohve-yellow, brighter on the primaries, the 

 secondaries more broadly margined and tipped with yellowish white ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, edged and tipped with pale olive-yellow, 

 the two outermost with the base and the entire inner web olive- 

 yellow, the next one with a broad shade of brown on the inner web ; 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow lemon-yellow ; sides of the face and 

 ear-coverts lemon-yellow, the latter with an oKvc shade on the 

 upper margin ; cheeks and entire under surface of the body lemon- 

 yellow, including the thighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under 

 wing- coverts ; quills blackish below, with the base of the inner web 

 and a great part of its extent pale yellow. Total length 7'75 inches, 

 culmeu I, wing 3" 75, tail 3*5, tarsus 1*2. (Mus. H. B. Tristram.) 



Canon Tristram states that the male is a little larger than the 

 female, but is similar in colour. 



Hah. Marquesas Islands. 



