TATARE LONGIROSTRIS. 



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NOTE V. 



THE SPECIMENS OF THE GENUS TATARE TN THE 

 LEYDEN MUSEUM 



J. BUTTIKOPER. 



In looking over our specimens belonging to the genus 

 Tatare , I had some difficulties in determining them and 

 found that the localities mentioned on the labels of some 

 of them would not agree with what Tristram (Ibis 1883) 

 and Sharpe (Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII) published about the 

 habitat of the different species. 



Our material consists in the following specimens: 



1. Tatare longirostris (Gm.). 



Sitta otatare Less. = Tatare otaitensis Less. — Acrocephalus otatare Tris- 

 tram , Ibis 1883, p. 41. 



General character: Feathers on upper surface brown 

 with very broad pale yellow edgings , these edgings however 

 very narrow on the head , and broadest on rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. Lower surface sulphur-yellow , tail brown , very 

 broadly tipped and on the inner web narrowly margined 

 with yellowish white. Primary quills rather narrowly, the 

 secondaries very broadly edged and tipped with pale yel- 

 low. Bill slender, straight. 



Huaheina (Mus. Godeffroy) 

 » ( * * ) 



^ ( 



Tahiti ( 



Coll. Garrett) 

 » ) 



cT Verreaux 1867. 

 Voyage of the Coquille 



Marquesas 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XIV. 



