610 APTEEYGIDJi. 



id Zool. (s. s.) 1874, p. 4014 ; Finsch, J. f. 0. 1874, p. 224 ; 

 A. Newt. Diet, of B. p. 490 (note) (pt. 2, 1893). 

 Apteryx fusciis, Rowl. [nee Potts) Orn. Misc. ii. p. 8 (1875) ( = oweni, 

 melanistic). 



Adult male. Greyish, banded with whitish, the hands less promi- 

 nent or nearly obsolete on the head, throat, and neck ; irides black : 

 bill dark horn-colour; legs and feet pale brown, the claws [whitish] 

 horn-colour (BuJIcr). Total length about 12*5 inches ; bill along 

 the ridge 2-85, along the edge of lower mandible 3"4 ; tarsus 1-75. 



Female. As a rule, somewhat paler than the male. Total length 

 20 inches ; bill along the ridge J3-5, along the edge of lower man- 

 dible 4 ; tarsus 2*5. 



Yonng. " Plumage verj- soft, dull greyish brown, obscurely 

 mottled ; vertex, sides of the head, and throat greyish white ; the 

 light tips of the feathers very conspicuous, having the appearance of 

 small pencilled lines on a darker ground, the produced hair-like 

 filaments being entirely black : bill whitish horn-colour " (BuUer). 



The light marks on the upper parts are V-shaped and are placed 

 on the apical portion of the feathers. {Rothschild Museum.^ 



" Very young state. A chick of this species, in the Kowley Col- 

 lection at Brighton, is of a uniform yellowish-brown colour, with 

 the tips of the feathers lighter " (Buller). 



Bab. East coast of South Island. 



a. Ad. St. New Zealand. Dr. Mantell [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. at juv. sk. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes [P.]. 

 d-k. c? 2 hd. et New Zealand. Colonial Museum of 



juv. sk. Wellington [P.]. 



i, k.* (S ad. et New Zealand. Colonial Museum of 



ad. (?) sk. Wellington [P.]. 



/. Skeleton. 

 m. Skeleton. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Apteryx occidentalis. 



Aptervx owenii, Finsch (nee Gould), J.f. 0. 1870, p. 339 (W. coast 



of South Island); Btiller, Hist. B. Neiv Zeal. (2nd ed.) p. 327 



(part.) (1888). 

 Aptei'vx occidentalis, JRothsch. Bull. Br. Orn. Club, no. x. pp. lix, Ixi 



(1803) ; id. Ibis, 1893, pp. 573, 570. 

 Apteryx oweni occidentalis, Hothseh. Bull. Br. Orn. Club, no. x. 



p. Ixii (1893) ; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 676. 



Hybrid. 



Apterj'x mantellixA. occidentalis, Rothseh. Bull. Br. Orn. Club, 

 no. xvii. p. xxxvi (1894) ; id. Ibis, 1894, p. 429. 



Similar to A. oiueni, from which it differs " in its much larger 

 size (being quite as big as A. australis), in its comparatively very 



* These specimens are somewbat darker, and have the light bands less 

 defined, than ordinarj' specimens of A. owcni. 



