11. OCYDROMUS. 65 



Sharpp, Viii/. ^Erebus " S,- 'Terror,' Apj). Birds, p. 28 (187o) ; Buller, 



Tr. N. Zifal. Imt. viii. p. 202 (187o). 

 Ojvilri>iiius austnilis, Strickl. Ann. ^- Mar/. Naf. Hist. vii. p. .30 



(1841); Oral/, Gen. B. iii. p. o'J6 (184t)) ; id. Vol/. ' Erebus' f 



'Terror,' p. 1.% pi. 14 (184*>); lleichenb. ILtndh., Fidicar. Taf. cxxiii. 



fig. 1210 (18ol) ; Gnvi, Ibis, 18(J2, p. 2.}7 ; Schl. Mm. Paifs-Bas, 



Kalli, p. 7;J (180-5); iVulf, Zool. •Sketclu-s, 2ud series, 1865, pi.; 



Buller, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. i. p. 50 (1808) ; Trave.rs, t. c. p. 178 



(fornierlv in Chatham Island); Potts, op. cit. ii. p. 70 (1869), iii. 



p. lUO (1870); Finsck, J.f. O. 1870, p. 352; Gra,/, lland-l. B. 



iii. p. 56, no. I03();i (1871) ; Fin.%ch, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 20'.» 



(1872) ; Buller, B. X. Zeal. p. 17!), pi. xix. %. 2 (187.3) ; Hutfoii, 



Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. vi. p. Ill (1873) ; Finsch, J.f. O. 1874, p. 178; 



Sharpe, Voy. 'Erebus' ^ 'Terror,' App. Birds, p. 28 (1875); 



Buller, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. viii. p. 187 (1875: egg) ; id. op. cit. x. 



p. 215 (1877) ; Iteischeh, Tr. X Zeal. Inst. xvii. p. 190 (1884); 



Smith, op. cit. xviii. p. 131 (1885) ; Buller, B. New Zeal. 2iid edit. 



ii. p. 1 10, pi. 35. fig. 1 (1888) ; S/iarpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. v. 



p. XXX (Jan. 1893). 

 Ocydronius brachvptenis (nee Zafr.), ScM. Mus. Paijs-Bas, Ealli, 



p. 73 (1805) ; Builer, B. N. Zeal 2ud edit. ii. p. 119, pi. 35. tig. 2 



(1888). 

 Oeydromus hectori, Hutton, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. vi. p. 110 (1873); 



Finsch, op. cit. vii. p. 231 (1874) ; S/iarpe, Vuij. 'Erebus ' l^- 'Terror,' 



App. Birds, p. 128 (1875). 

 Ocvdromus earli {nee Grai/), Finsch, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. vii. p. 231 



(1874). 



Adult male. General colour above tawny buff, thickl}- striped 

 with broad black centres to the feathers ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts nearly uniform tawny butf, with a few duskv 

 bars ; scapulars and wing-coverts barred with black and tawny butf. 

 the latter colour often arranged in notches, and with somewhat of 

 a rufous shade ; (|uills, as well as the upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers, chestnut with black bars, narrower on the latter; head 

 rather more rufescent than the back and more narrowly streaked 

 with black ; lores and feathers round the eye black, with a supra- 

 loral streak of buff, continued into a streak of grey above the ear- 

 coverts, and forming an eyebrow ; eyelid wliitish ; ear-coverts 

 tawny rufous, streaked with black ; cheeks and throat ashy grey ; 

 sides of neck, fore neck, and chest light tawny, spotted with black, 

 streaked with black centres to the feathers; breast duller tawny 

 buff, washed with ashy on the u])per parts and crossed with dusky 

 bars ; the lower breast and abdomen dusky brown, indistinctly 

 barred with pale fulvous ; sides of the body sandy buff or light 

 tawny, more rufescent on the lower Hanks, all broadly barred with 

 black, rather more narrowly on the tlauks ; vent light tawny, the 

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

 decj) tawny or rufous, with black bars ; quills chestnut below, with 

 black cross bands : " bill pale reddish brown at base, brown at the 

 tip ; tarsi and toes pale lake-red, claws brown ; iris bright reddish 

 brown" (IT. L. Bulhr). Total length 19 inches, culmen 1-7. wiug 

 G"S, tail 0*1, tarsus 1"75. 



Adult fenidh. Similar to the male, but a little smaller. 



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