1917-] Turdus minutus Forster. 425 



attingiint. Remiges fuscae, margiuibus flavo-virentibu'?. 

 Remex 4ta longissima. Alae subtus fusco-fuligiiiosae. Cauda 

 cuneata. Rectrices (4 extimae quae tantum in speciraine 

 nostro aderant, reliquis sclopeto evulsis) fuscae, tertia parte 

 ad apiccra iiigrae, margiuibus extimis flavo-virentibus, 

 6ta extima utriraque macula ante apicem obliqua alba, 

 5-3 raai-gine iuteriore ante apicem macula rotundata alba. 



^^ Mensurae. 



" Ab apice rostri ad extremura caudae 3 5/8 unc. 



— — — ad unguem digiti medii ... 3 3/4 — 



Alae expansae 9 — 



Cauda 1 5/8 — 



Pedes cum f emoribus 2 



Eostrum ad faucis angulum 1/2 — 



— infronte 3/16 — " 



It seems to me difficult to understand how it is Gray 

 was not able to recognise in so exact a portrait the bird 

 J. Macgillivray had brought back from Nu Island and which 

 he had himself described imder the name oi Acanthiza flavo- 

 lateralis *, a common bird in every part of New Caledonia, 

 known in our days under the same specific name but classed 

 in the genus Pseudogerygone. It is indeed sufficient to have 

 a specimen in one's hand to see that Forster's description fits 

 in every particular, size, colour, anatomical characters, so 

 far as they can be observed. In the absence of any repre- 

 sentative of the species, the same result is also obtained 

 from a comparison of the texts, particularly if we go back 

 for Pseuclogej-ygone flavolateralis , not to Gray's original 

 description of it, but to the more complete description of 

 Sharpe, drawn up from the type-specimen preserved in the 

 British Museum. I have already given Forster's descrip- 

 tion of his Turdus minutus from Botany Island ; to make 

 a comparison easier, I am now giving that of the type of 

 Acanthiza flavolateralis, borrowed respectively from Gray 

 and Sharpe. 



* G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, p. 161, no. 9. 

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