4. cahaixs. 47 



Kcij to the Sjiecies. 

 <t. Plumage viirlegatel ; throat gi-fy, scjinated 



from the tawny breast by a tliiclilv banded 



patch of bhick ; breast also banded with 



black ; lower breast and abdomen black 



barred with white dicfft'iibnchii ad., p. 47. 



h. I'liuiKiire uniform ; reddish above, greyer 



below, with Some reddish browu on the 



chi 8t, but no cross bars on the ilaidis ; 



quills rufous with narrow blackish bars. . sylvestris, p. 48. 

 V. I'lumage uniform dusky browu above ; 



underneath greyish, the flanks with 



fulvescent bars; quills dusky with ful- 

 vous bars dlffffuhucliii juv., p. 48. 



1. Cabalus dieffenbacWi. (Plate Yl.) 



Pallus dieH'enbachii, (Jraif, in DicfTeiih. Trav. X. Zeal. ii. App. p. 107 



(lS4;i); id. List (imlhc Brit. J/«.s. p. 117 ils44) : Finsch, J. f. O. 



1870, p. :'.").-), 187i',p. 1S2, 1874,]).:.'0l): Hutt<m, Ihis, ls7i>, p. 247; 



Bullcr, B. X. Zeal. ]>. 179, pi. -20. tig. 2 (1873) ; id. Ibi.s, 1.^74, p. 1 17 ; 



Finsch, J.f. O. 1878, y. 182. 

 Ocydromus dipffenbachii. Gray, Voi/. 'Erebus ' (Jj- ' Terror' Birds, p. 14, 



pi. lo (]84()) ; id. Gen. B. iii."p. 596 (1840) ; id. Hund-l. B. iii. 



p. o6, no. ]U;'.(i8 (1871). 

 IIvpota?nidia diefienbachii, Bp. C. It. xliii. p. '"99 (18-'3tj) ; Gnii/, 



'Ibis, 1802, p. 238. 

 Rallua modestus (= juv.). Hidton, Ibis, 1872, p. 247, 1873, pp. 349- 



3o2; id. Tr. X. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 223 (1873). 

 Cabalus modestus, Hiitton, Tr. X. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 217 (1873) ; Trovers, 



t. c. p. 217 (Mangare) ; Uiitton, ibid. vi. y. 108 (1874) : Buller, B. 



X. Zeal. 2Ld ed. ii. p. 123 (18,'?8); Forbes, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



no. iv. p. XX (Dec. 1892) ; Saload. op. cit. v. p. xxiii (.Ian. 1893). 

 Cabalus diefienbachii, Sharpe, Voi/. 'Frebus' ^•' Terror,' Birds, p. 29, 



pi. XV. (1875) ; Buller, B. X. Zeal. 2nd. ed. ii. p. 121 (l888j. 



Adah (t)'pe of species). General colour above brown, bunded on 

 the mantle and scapulars, and spotted on the upper back, with 

 ochreous buft", these butt" markings being margined "witli black, 

 which takes the form of broad bars on the mantle ; lower back and 

 rump uniform brown ; u])pcr tuil-coverts brown, barred across with 

 light rufous and black; lesser wing-coveits like the back ; inedian 

 and greater coverts, as well as the primary-coverts and quills, light 

 chestnut, barred with ])hick, the itinermost secondaries s])otted and 

 barred with ochre and black, like the back ; tail-feathers brown, 

 mottled with chestnut near the base ; crown of head and najie 

 uniform brown, followed bj- an indistinct patch of chestnut on the 

 hind neck ; lores dull rufous, surmounted by a broad line of bluish 

 grey, extending from the base of the nostrils to the sides of the 

 na))e : rest of the sides of the face bluish grey, extending on to tho 

 lower throat ; this grey area of the face separated from tho grey eye- 

 brow by a i)road band of dark chestnut, which extends from the 

 lores through the eye along the upper j)art of the car-coverts; ch n 

 and upper throat white; lower throat black, barred across with 

 white ; fore neck and chest ochreous buff, banded rather narrowly 



