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exactly, both in size and colouring, to P. macrocephala, No. 28 

 of my '^ Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand' (Wellington, 

 1871) ; but as P. dieffenbachi was originally described from a Chat- 

 ham-Island specimen, the names in my Catalogue will have to be 

 changed, and No. 29, the smaller bird with the pale yellow breast, 

 will be P. macrocephala. 



8. Petroica traversi*. 



Entirely black, except the wings, which are brownish. Length 

 6 inches; wing 3-25; bill from gape 0-77; tarsus 1-13. Female 

 similar to the male. 



Several specimens, all from Mangare. 



9. Anthus nov^-zealandi^ (Gm.). 

 One specimen. 



10. Rhipidura flabellifera (Gm.). 



One specimen. Mr. Travers informs me that he could not 

 hear of a black-tailed species of Rhipidura ever having been seen 

 on the islands; it is therefore probable that Dr. DiefFenbach's 

 specimen of R. melanura, Gray, was incorrectly labelled, and R. 

 melanura will therefore be the same as R. tristis, Hombr. et 

 Jacq. 



?11. Stringops habroptilus, Gray. 



Mr. Travers never saw a specimen of this bird ; but from 

 the descriptions of others he can hardly doubt but it once existed 

 on these islands ; at the same time he remarks that there is no 

 country in the Chathani Islands at all similar to the haunts it 

 loves to frequent in New Zealand. 



12. Platycercus nov^-zealandt^ (Sparrm.). 

 One specimen. 



13. Platycercus aurtceps, Kuhl. 



Two specimens, both of which are larger than any that I have 

 seen from New Zealand, measuring 11 inches in length, and 4*7 

 inches from the carpal joint to the tip of the wing. The bill 

 and tarsi are of the same size as New-Zealand specimens. 



* [This is the species called 3Iiro traversi by Dr. Buller in his second 

 part of the ' Birds of New Zealand,' p. 123 (published June 1872), the 

 description being taken from the same specimens. Cf. Buller, /. c. — Ed.] 



