11. PETRCKrA. 177 



secoudurles. Total length 4-\) inches, culnien 0-5, wing 'ZS, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 sooty brown, the wings rather darker than the back, and exhibiting 

 a white speculum, formed by a white band across the inner secon- 

 daries at about one third of the distance from the base ; on some of 

 the inner primaries an indistinct mark of brown on the outer web ; 

 across the rump an indication of a buff-coloured band ; upper tail- 

 coTerts black ; tail-feathers black, with a quadrate spot of white on 

 the inner web of the third feather, the penultimate one with a broad 

 band of white extending obliquely across both webs, and much 

 larger on the outermost, which is obliquely white across the central 

 half ; on the forehead a large white spot ; ear-coverts and feathers 

 below the eye black with white shaft-lines ; under surface of body 

 yellowish, the throat whiter, washed on the sides with blackish ; 

 thighs blackish ; under wing-coverts white with black bases ; quilLs 

 blackish, white at the base of the secondaries. Total length 5*2 

 inches, culmen O-o, wing 2-0, tail 2-3, tarsus 1. 



Youmj. lu the j'oung of both sexes the yellow is reduced to a 

 scarcely percei^tible tinge, and in some examples is altogether wanting. 

 In the young male the breast is obscurely mottled with brown, and 

 in the young female these markings extend to the flanks also. 

 {Buller.) 



Hah. South Island, New Zealand ; Chatham Islands ; Auckland 

 Islands. 



a,h. c? 5 ad. st. New Zealand. New Zealand Co. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. New Zealand. New Zealand Co. [P.]. 



(/. cS ad. sk. New Zealand. Dr.Sinclair[P.]. (Type 



of P. dieffenhachii.) 

 e. S fid. sk. New Zealand. 



f,g, h. S ad. sk. New Zealand {F. Strange), Capt. Stokes [P.]. 

 »'. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Henry Wharton, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 k. J ad. sk. Auckland I'jlands. Antarctic Expedition 



[P.]. 



13. Petroeca vittata. 



Muscicapa vittata, Qiioy et Gmmard, Voy. de FAdrol. i. p. 173, pi. 3. 



fig. 2. 

 Petruica fusca, Goidd, B. Austr. folio, iii. pi. 8 ,• Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 183 ; Bp. C'unsp. i. p. 299 ; Reichenb. Vog. NeuhoU. pp. 95, 289 ; 



Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. 40. lig. 1. 

 Amaiu-odryas vittata, Goidd, Ilatidb. B. Austr. i. p. 28G; Ramscn/, 



I'r. Linn. Soc. N. 6'. If. ii. p. 183. 

 Petroica vittata, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 229, no. 3302. 



Adult. General colour dusky brown with a slight olive tinge, the 

 least wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater series blackish 

 brown, edged with lighter brown, the bastard wing margined with 

 whitish, edge of the wing Mhite ; primary-coverts blackish ; quills 

 blackish, the inner primajies with a white spot near the base of the 



