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fche wing-coverts, secondaries, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and 

 with the coppery green of the hiud neck sharply defined from the 

 chestnut colour of the mantle. Size ahout that of H. novep. 

 zealandue. 



There is only one specimen in the British Museum, and this not 

 in very good condition, as it has the tail and quills broken. This 

 bird has never been found in Australia, as stated by several ornitho- 

 logists ; probably it is extinct. 



Bab. Norfolk Island. 



a. Ad. ak. [Norfolk Island.] Old Coll. 



3. Hemiphaga chathaniensis. 



Carpophaga nova? zealandia?, Trovers, Tr. fy Pr. N. Z. Inst. i. p. 178 



(1868) (Chatham Islands) ; Finsck, J. f. O. 1870, p. 334 (part.) ; 



Button, Ibis, 1872, p. 246 (Chatham Islands) ; Trovers, Tr. $ Pr. 



N. Z. Inst. v. p. 216 (Chatham Islands) (1873); Button, Ibis, 



1874, p. 38; Finseh, J. f. O. 1874, p. 192 (part.) ; Bull. Man. B. 



New Zeal. p. 41 (part.) (1882). 

 ( Jarpophaga cnathamensis, Rothsch. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 312, pi. xxviii. 



(Chatham Islands) ; Butler, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xxiv. p. 80 (1892). 

 Carpophaga chathamica, H. O. Forbes, Nature, vol. 46, pp. 252-3 



(1892). 



Adult male. Head dark metallic green, changing on the neck and 

 fore part of the breast into deep metallic green with a purple-blue 

 tinge ; interscapular region and wing-coverts up to bend of the 

 wing, lower back, rump, outer wing-coverts, and quills mealy 

 grey, the latter and also the quills with narrow green edges ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts grey, with a green tinge ; inner quills and their 

 coverts metallic green, with a mealy appearance in the middle ; 

 under wing-coverts pearl-grey ; quills underneath dark greyish 

 black, lighter towards their base ; breast and abdomen snowy white, 

 tianks light grey ; basal under tail-coverts grey, partly white on the 

 inner webs, the longer ones dull metallic green ; tail above deep 

 steel-blue, with a grey tinge at the base, and the tips edged with 

 pale brown ; tail below brown-black, with the base grey, the grey 

 portion increasing on the outer feathers, especially on the outer 

 web : " irides dark red ; bill rich orange one third from the base, 

 remainder purple-lake; feet of a pink-red; sides pinkish flesh- 

 colour " (ff. 0. Forbes). Total length 20 inches, wing 10*75, 

 tail 8-5, bill 0-75, tarsus 1-05. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Bab. Chatham Islands. 



This species, besides being very different in colouring from 

 //. nova zealandiae, has a much stronger bill; in the extent of the 

 grey colour on the wings and lower back it resembles //. spadieea. 



a, h. ,5 ad. et ad. sk. Chatham Islands. 11. O. Forbes, Esq. [P." 1 . 



(Types of C. chathamica, Fork) 



