35. NESONETTA. 289' 



d, e, f. 2 ad. et New Zealand. Wellington Museum 



djuv.sk. [E.]. 



g, h. (S imni. et New Zealand. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



juv. sk. 



i, k. S 2 ad. sk. FoveaiLx Straits, NewZealand. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



I. Ad. sk. Chatham Is. Dr. H. 0. Forbes [0.]. 



35. NESONETTA. ^ 



Type. 

 Nesonetta, G. H. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 627 (1844) N. aucklandica. 



Range. Confined to the Aucklands. 



1. Nesonetta aucklandica. 



Nesonetta aucklandica, G. Ji. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 627 (excl. syn.). 



pi. 169. f. 4 (head, wing, and foot) (1844) ; id. List B. Brit. Mus. 



iii. p. 191 (excl. syn.) (1844) ; id. Voy. Ereb. ^- Terr., Birds, p. 16. 



pi. 17 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. Append, p. 28 (1849) ; lichnh. Syn. Av.. 



Natatores, t. 77. f. 891 (e.c Erebus Sf Terror) (184-?): id. Av. 



Syst. Nat. p. ix, t. vii. (1852) ; Bp. Compt. Bend, sliii! p. 651. 



n. lo4 (1856); G. R. Gr. Ibis, 1862, p. 242; Fimch, J. f. O. 1870, 



p. .358 ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 90, n. 10724 (1872) ; Sunder. 



Meth. nat. Av. disjj. Tent. p. 150 (1872) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, 



p. 188 ; Rutt. Trans. N. Z. Inst. v. p. 2-38 (1873) ; Fi7isch, J.f. O 



1844, p. 203; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 700 (1875); Sharpe, Voy. 



Ereb. .y Terr., Birds, p. 31 (1875) ; BuUer, Hist. B. New Zeal. 



2nd ed. ii. p. 263, pi. xlii. (lower fig.) (1888) ; id. Trans. N. Z. Inst. 



xxiv. 1891, p. 86 (1892) (young iu down). 

 Erismatura (Nesonetta) aucklandica, Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882. 



p. 4. 



Adult male. Head and upper portion of the neck blackish brown 

 with a green gloss, especially on the nape ; upper parts brown, 

 with a green gloss and with brown-chestnut edges to the feathers ; 

 lower portion of hind neck, mantle, and scapulars waved with black 

 and rut'ous-brown lines ; lower part of fore neck and crop-region 

 chestnut, changing into whitish on the breast and abdomen ; on 

 the crop-region and breast the feathers are centred with blackish 

 round spots ; abdomen crossed with dusky and whitish bars ; sides 

 and flanks waved with black and rufous bars ; under tail-coverts 

 blackish, mingled with brown ; at the base of them, on each side, 

 a not very distinct paler patch, waved with rufous-grey and black 

 bars ; wings brown, the feathers with narrow brown edges ; second- 

 aries obscurely glossed with green, and tipped with reddish white, 

 forming a narrow apical band ; under wing-coverts brown, broadly 

 edged with white ; tail blackish brown, almost uniform : " bill 

 blackish brown ; tarsus and feet reddish brown ; irides dark hazel " 

 {Bxdlcr). Total length from 17 to 18 inches, wing o-o, tail 3"8, 

 culmen l-lJ, tarsus 1-25. (Boihschild Coll.) 



Female. JIuch smaller than the male ; head brown, with no green 

 lustre; on the cheeks and throat the feathers edged with whitish; 

 general colour brown, with a dark green lustre on the back and 

 wings ; crop-region, sides, and flanks brown-chestnut ; on the flanks 



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