18. PSEUDOGERYGONE. 



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nal white bar ; median and lesser wing-coverts like the back • 

 greater coverts and quills brown, narrowly edged with olive-brown • 

 lores and an indistinct eyebrow dark grey; feathers in front of and 

 round the eye blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of neck dark ashy 

 grey, the latter washed with olive; cheeks and under surface of 

 body lighter ashy, inclining to white on the abdomen, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts ; thighs ashy brown ; under wing-coverts slightly 

 washed with olive; quills brown below, whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " bill, tarsus, and toes dark brown ; iris red " 

 (Buller). Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-1 tail 1-8 

 tarsus 0-8. ' 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4 inches, cul- 

 men 0-4, wing 1-9, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Young. SimUar to the adult, but browner above, and washed with 

 pale yellow on the sides of the body. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



«, 6. c? $ ad. sk. New Zealand (i^..S!ra?i^e). Capt. Stokes TIM 



c Juv. sk. Bay of Islands, N. Z. AntarcticExpeditiourO.l. 



rf.Juv.sk. New Zealand. Zoological Society. 



2. Pseudogerygone modesta. 

 Gerygone modesta, Pelz. &itz. k. Akad. Wien, xli. p. .320; Gray, Ibis, 



Acanthiza modesta, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 220, no 3139 

 Pseudogerygone modesta, Sharpe, Notes Leijden Mus. i. Ao. 9, p. 29. 

 Adult General colour above brown, with a sUght olivaceous 

 brown tinge on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median 

 wmg-coyerts like the back; greater and primarv-coverts, as weU as 

 the quills, dark brown, narrowly edged with olive-brown margins ; 

 tail-feathers ashy brown, edged with olive, with an antesubterminal 

 shade of black forming a broad band across the end of the tail aU 

 but the centre feathers having a small spot of white near the tip of 

 the inner web, increasing in extent towards the outermost • lores 

 obscure grey, forming an almost imperceptible streak over the fore 

 part of the eye ; round the latter a ring of white feathers, and in 

 front of it a blackish spot ; sides of face ashy, darker on the upper 

 edge of the ear-coverts ; thi-oat and breast ashy ; the abdomen, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts white, strongly washed with buflf; thighs 

 ashy; under wing-coverts and axillaries duU white, washed with 

 yellow ; thighs ashy; quills brown below, whitish along the inner 

 web ; "eyes black" {BrenMey). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 

 0-4o, wing 2-0o, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hub. Norfolk Island. 



a. Ad. sk. Norfolk Island, June 1865. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Pseudogerygone ruficoUis. 

 Gerygone? ruficollis, Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p 959 

 Pseudogerj'gone ruficoUis, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, p.' 29. 

 Female (Atam, June 2Q, \S1d, Beccari ; type of species). General 



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