8. TATAEE. 



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3. Tatare pistor. 



Acroceplialus pistor, Tristram, Ibis, 1883, pp. 44, 47, pi. ii. 

 Adult male. General coloui' above ashy grey, with a slight olivaceous 

 tinge, the feathers mottled with margins of hoary white, more con- 

 spicuous on the mantle and back, and again on the upper tail-coverts • 

 wmg-coverts like the back, with broad whitish margins like the 

 latter; bastard-wing feathers, greater coverts, and quills dark 

 brown, with whitish edges to the feathers, broader on the greater 

 series of coverts than on the secondaries ; tail-feathers dark brown 

 with ashy margins and white tips ; lores and an indistinct eyebrow 

 yellowish white ; car-coverts ashy brown, with obscure greyish-whito 

 edges ; sides of the neck lighter ashy ; cheeks and under surface of 

 body white shghtly washed with yeUow on the breast and abdomen ; 

 sides of body and flanks light ashj-, as weU as the thighs • under 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish 

 with dusky bases to the latter ; quills below dusky bi-owu with 

 broad white inner edges to the feathers. Total length 7-2 inches 

 culmen (imperfect) 0-7o, wing 3-25, tail 2-9, tarsus M5. (Mus H. 

 B. Tristrcmi.) 



Hah. Fanning Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. 

 Ohs. Canon Tristram has kindly lent me the tvpe of this species 

 to describe. I think that the grey colour of the bird is probably due 

 to fading of the plumage, the specimen having apparently been in 

 spirits. AU the species of Tatare appear to be liable to fade, as far 

 as my experience goes of specimens in Museums. 



4. Tatare syrinx. 



Acrocephalus syrinx {Kittl.\ SecboJim, Cat. B. Brit. Mm. v. p. 100- 



Tnstr. Ibis, I88u, p. 44. 

 Galamoherpe syriux, Finsch, Ibis, 1881, pp. 112, 115. 



Adult female General colour above uniform ruddy brown, be- 

 coming paler and more fulvous-brown on the lower back and rump • 

 upper tail-coverts like the back ; wing-coverts dusky brown, exter- 

 nally hke the back, becoming paler near the ends of the median, 

 greater, and primary-coverts ; quills duskv brown, externally edo-ed 

 with ruddy brown like the back, the primaries margined with ful- 

 vous or whity brown, with which colour also the longer secondaries 

 are narrowly tipped ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged witli fulvous- 

 brown and rather broadly tipped with whitish ; lores and a distinct 

 eyebrow yellowish buff; ear-coverts pale sandv buff : cheeks, throat 

 and under surface of body yellowish wliite, sandv buff on the flanks 

 and sides of body and tliighs ; under tail-coverts yellowish wliite ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed wi'th yellow ; quills 

 dusky brown below, sandy along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6-S inches, culmen l-U-95, wing 3-2-9, tail 2-75-2-55 

 tarsus 1-05. ' 



Hah. Island of Ponape. 



a. $ ad. sk. Pouapd {Kubary). Godeffioy Muaeum. 



