238 



TRERONIU^. 



towards the tip ; eyelids pale red " (Butter). Total length 21 

 inches, wing 10-25, tail 7 - 50, bill to the edge of the frontal feathers 

 0-6, tarsus 1-25. 



Female. Similar to the male, but somewhat duller. 



Young. " The underparts have a rufous tinge, which is deepest on 

 the flanks and under tail-coverts ; the bill and irides are of a lighter 

 colour than in the adult, and the feet instead of being carmine are 

 of a bright coral-red; the soles pale brown instead of yellow." 

 (Butter.) 



Hab. New Zealand and Auckland Islands. 



a. Ak. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. d. d 2 ad. sk. 



e >f- (5 2 ad - sk - 

 g, h, i. Ad. et 



imrn. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 

 I, m. Ad. et imm. 



st. 



New Zealand. 



New Zealand. 



New Zealand (F. Strange). 



Dunedin, May. 



Bay of Islands. 



Bay of Islands, Nov. 

 Bay of Islands. 



Sir E. Home [P.], 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Capt. Stokes [P.]. 

 Hunie Coll. 

 Antarctic Exp. 



M'Cormiek Bequest. 

 Lieut. A. Smith, R.N. 

 [P.]. 



2. Herniphaga spadicea. 



Chestnut-shouldered Pisreon, Lath. Syn. Suppl, ii. add. p. 375 (1802) 

 (Norfolk Island) ; id. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 30 (1823). 



Coiumba spadicea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ix, n. 7 (1802 ?) ; Tcmm. 

 fy Knip, Pig. film, seconde, p. 1, pl. 1 (1808) : Temm. Hist. Nat. 

 Pig. et Galiin. i. pp. 74, 444 (Norfolk Island) (1813) ; Vieill. N. B. 

 xxvi. p. 342 (1818) : Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 92 (1819) : Vieill. Enc. 

 Meth. i. p. 377 (1823) ; Besm. Bid. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 310 (1826) ; 

 Selb. Natur. Libr., Pit/eons, p. 127, pl. ix. (1835). 



Colamba gigas, Banz. Elem. Zool. iii. pt. 1, p. 223 (1821). 



Coiumba leucogaster, Waal. Syst. Ac. Coiumba, sp. 12 (1827) 

 (Norfolk Isl.). 



Coiumba princeps, Yiq.P.Z.S. 1833, p. 78 (Australia!); Jard. §■ 

 Selb. 111. of Orn. n. s. pl. v. (1836). 



Carpophaga spadicea, G. R. Gr. List of Gallince B. M. p. 6 (1844) 

 id. Gen. B. ii. p. 468, n. 9 (1844) ; Hartl. Si/st. Verz.n. 98 (1844) 

 Echnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria?, f. 1286 (1847) ; Peale, Un. St. Expl. 

 Exped., Birds, n. 117 (1848) ; Hartl, Wiegm. Archiv, 1852, p. 115 

 G. P. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Coiumba?, p. 22 (1856) (Australia !) 

 id. Ibis, 1862, p. 232 (Norfolk Island) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 588 

 (1872); ?Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. jj. 189 (S. Australia !) (1891). 



Herniphaga spadicea, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 39 (1854) ; id. Compt. 

 Rend, xxxix. p. 1077 (1854), xl. p. 217, n. 107 (1855) ; id. Coup 

 d'ceil Ordr. Pir,. pp. 17, 55, n. 107 (1855) ; v. Pelz. Sitz. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, xli'. p. 326 (1860) (Ibis, 1860, p. 422) ; Echnb. Taubm, 

 i. p. 113, t. 230. f. 1286 (1862), ii. p. 182 (1862) ; G. E. Gr. 

 Hand-list, ii. p. 231, n. 9222 (1870); ? Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. 

 Coiumba, p. 11 (1873) ; ? Hein. 4' Echntv. Nomencl. Mus. Bern. 

 Orn. p. 283 (1890). 



Wood-quest, Bowning, Pr. E. Soc. Tctsm. iii. pt. ii. p. 208 (1859). 



Muscadivora spadicea, Schleg. Be Bierent. p. 210 (1864). 



^idult. Similar to H. novce zealandice, but much more greyish on 



