48 EALLIDJi:. 



with black, this pattern of coloration extending up the sides of the 

 neck to the ehcstnut on the ear-coverts ; lower breast and abdomen 

 black, banded with white, the light bars on the tlanks and vent- 

 feathers being tinged with ochreons ; under tail-coverts broadly 

 banded with black and ochre ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 blackish, barred with white ; under surface of quills chestnut with 

 broad black bars. Tota.1 length 11-5 inches, culuien 1-35, wing 4-8, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 1-45, middle toe and claw IS. 



Younr/ male. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, with a 

 shade of more fulvous brown on the mantle and upper back, the 

 head rather more dusky ; wing-coverts like the back, long and 

 fluffy, and having slight indications of whitish bars ; primary-coverts 

 and outer primaries dusky brown, barred or notched with sandy 

 buff, the rest of the quills chocolate-brown, dusky on their inner 

 webs ; sides of face dai'k brown like the head, with a faint ashy 

 shade, the cheeks and throat more distinctly ashy grey ; lower 

 throat and fore neck brown, becoming more dusky on the breast and 

 sides of body, and inclining to dark ashy on the lower abdomen and 

 flanks ; fore neck faintly barred with sandy butt", these bars more 

 distinct on the sides of the breast and sides of the body ; under 

 wing-coverts and quill-lining dusky blackish, with a few fulvous 

 spots on the former, the primaries being notched and barred as on 

 the upper surface. Total length 7 inches, culmen 1-5, tarsus 1-1. 



Hub. Chatham Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Chatham Islands. New Zealand Company [P.], 



(Tj pe of species.) 



b. S ji-^v. sk. Mangare, Chatham Inlands, II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



June 1 ( IF. Hawkins). 



2. Cabalus sylvestris. 



Ocvdromus svlvestris, Scl. P. Z. S. 18(39, p. 472, pi. xxxv. ; Bennett, 

 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 471; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 5(3, no. 10.3(37 (1871) ; 

 Buller, Trans. N. Z. x. p. 216 (1877) ; Mei/er, Ahhild. ro(j.-Skel. 

 pts.iv., V. p. 32, Taf. xli. (1883) ; Etheridcje, Lord Howe Id. p 17 

 (1889) ; Korth, Pec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 37, pi. i. fig. 3 (1890, nesting). 



Cabalus sylvestris, S/iarpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. v. p. xxx (Jan. 

 1893). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform reddish 

 olive-brown ; primary-coverts and quills rufous, barred with dusky 

 brown, the adjacent greater coverts partaking the same colour as 

 the quills ; tail-feathers brown, more or less rufous near the base, 

 with dusky bars ; head a little more dusky than the back ; lores, 

 eyebrow, sides of face, and throat ashy grey : remainder of under 

 surface light ashy brown, with a few scattered fulvous spots ; under 

 tail-coverts rufous barred with black ; under wing-coverts rufous, 

 with dusky black bars ; qnills brighter rufous with narrow du.sky, 

 bars. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-95, wing 5-3, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus 1-8, middle toe and claw 2. 



Hab. Lord Howe Island. 

 a. Ad. sk. Loid Howe Island. Gould Coll. 



(Tyi^e of species.) 



