from New Zealand and adjacent Islands. 593 



c. <$ adult. Nelson, S. Island, New Zealand, 1st May, 

 1897. 



d. 9 immature. Nelson, January 1901. 



Judging from the large series kindly lent me by Mr. Walter 

 Rothschild, and from the specimens in the British Museum, 

 which together number forty-six, the fully adult male and 

 female of this species do not differ from one another in 

 plumage ; and the bird with the upper parts umber-brown, 

 which both Sir Walter Buller and Dr. Sclater describe as 

 the adult female, is really immature. 



The range of this species is confined to South Island, 

 New Zealand. 



In some examples of X. longipes the scale covering the 

 front of the tarso-metatarsus is entire, but occasionally it 

 is divided into separate scales. 



The wing measures 2"2-2*3 inches. 



98. Xenicus stokesi G. R. Gray. (Plate XII. figs. 2 & 3.) 



Xenicus longipes Buller, B. New Zeal. i. p. 108 (1888) 

 [part., North Island]. 



Xenicus stokesi G. R. Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 21 'J; Grant, 

 Bull. B. O. C. xv. no. cix. p. 15 (1904). 



Xenicus gilviventris Sclater (nee v. Pelz.), Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xiv. p. 453 (1888). [Type of X stokesi Gray.] 



The type of this species, an immature bird, was procured 

 for Capt. Stokes, either by Dr. Lyall or by Mr. F. Strange *, 

 in the Rimataka Ranges of Wellington District, North 

 Island. An adult bird, also procured at the same time, was 

 identified as X longipes by G. R. Gray (c/.'Ibis/ 1862, 

 p. 218). There can be no doubt that these two specimens 

 are adult and immature examples of the same species. The 

 adult may be at once distinguished from X longipes by the 

 shining slate-blue sides of the neck and chest tinged, in 

 certain lights, with greenish, and by the patch of pure yellow 

 feathers on the yellowish-green flanks. In the adult of 

 X. longipes the sides of the neck and chest are grey, and the 



* The original labels have imfortunatelv been removed. 



