11. OCYPROMCf!. ')7 



blackish externally, ami barred with black and rufous on the inner 

 webs, the inner secondaries rufous like the back and similarly 

 centred ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform reddissli 

 brown, the latter with black centres ; tail-feathers black, obscurely 

 raarj;ined with rufous brown, bub apj^earing to all intents and 

 purposes black ; crown of head like the back, the feathers streaked 

 with black centi-es ; lores dusky blackish, as well as the feathers 

 below the eye and at the angle of the mouth ; a supraloral streak 

 of greyish white continued in a broad grey eyebrow ; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, throat, and under surface of body ashy grey ; along the 

 upper parts of the ear-coverts a hand of reddish brown, continued 

 on to the sides of the neck, which are also reddish brown like the 

 fore neck, this forming a broad collar, which is slightly mottled 

 with indistinct dusky centres to the feathers ; chiu whitish ; the 

 abdomen slightly more dusky grey than the breast, the whole of the 

 grey of the underparts having an obscure dusky shading ; sides of 

 body, ilanks, and under tail-coverts dull reddish brown, the latter 

 with some dusky cross bars ; under wing-coverts rufous brown ; 

 quills below black and chestnut: "bill reddish brown, darker on 

 the ridge, changing into horny gre}' at the tip; tarsi and toes pale 

 brown, claws darker : iris light reddish brown "' ( 11'. L. Buller). 

 Total length 17"5 inches, culmen 2, wing 8, tail 4*4, tarsus 2"4. 



Adah female. Similar to the male, but smaller. 



VoKiiij (type of species). Similar to the adult, but the grey of the 

 under surface less defined, as also the lower collar on the fore neck, 

 tiie whole of the under surface being pervaded by a shade of brown. 



Hub. New Zealand (both N. and S. Islands). 



a. Ad. sk. New Zealand. 



b. Juv. sk. New Zealand. 



(Type of species.) 



c. d, e. Ad. et Xew Zealand. Colonial Museum, Wel- 

 juv. sk. lington. 



/. d iid. sk. Milford Sound, March 1850. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



Sir G. Grev [P.]. 

 Percy Earl, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Ocydromus brachypterxis. 



Gallirallus brachypteius. Lafr. AVr. dc Zoul. 1841, p. 213; id. May. 



de Zool. 1842, pi. i'4 (type examined). 

 Ocvdromus brachvjiterus, Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 596 (1846); id. His, 



i8(y, p. 2-'38 ; id. Hand-t. B. iii. p. 56, no. 10364 (1871) ; Shatpe, 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. no. v. p. xxvii (Jan. 1893). 

 Gallirallus fuscus, Du Bus, Exq. Orn. livr. 3, pi. ij. (1847). 

 Ocydromus nigricans, Bullcr, Tr. X. Zeal. Inst. i. p. 56 (1868), iii. 



p. 55 (1870) ; Grati, Iland-l. B. iii. p. o(S, uo. 10366 (1871). 

 Ocydromus fuscus, Finsch, J.f. O. 1870, p. 354; id. Tr. X. Zeal. 



In.'<t. V. p. 209 (1872); /./. J. f. O. 1872, p. 180; Ilutton, Tr. X. 



Zeal. Inst. vi. p. Ill (1873) ; Bulh-r. B. X. Z^al. p. 174 ( L--73) ; 



Finscli, J.f. O. 1874, p. 199; Buller, Tr. X. Zeal. Li.st. vii. p. 206 



( 1874) ; Fin-n/i, t. c. p. 231 ; Sliarjw, J'oi/. '■Erebus ' ^- ' Terror, A/>j\ 



Birds, p. 28 (1875); BulUr, Tr. X. Zeal. Inst. x. p. 216 (1877); 



Meyer, Abbild. Voq.-Skel. pts. iv., v. p. 31, Taf. xl. ( lf-83) ; Reischek, 



Tr. X. Zeal. Inst.'wn. p. 190 (1884) ; Bulkr, B. Xew Zeal. 2nd ed. 



ii. p. 112, pi. ZL lig. 2 (1888). 



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