380 MR. GOULD ON A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS APTERYX. 



semilu7iari transversa fulv(t, cui macula succedit informis nigra, ad apicem fulvis. 



Corpus inferius superiore pallidius, pluma enim quaque inferioris corporis tribus ru- 



diis fulvis, superioris tantum duohus ornatur ; fulvus quoque color inferiore longius 



quain superiore corpore in apicibus plumarum extendit. 

 Face, head and neck dull yellowish brown ; throat somewhat paler ; all the upper 

 surface transversely rayed with blackish brown and fulvous ; each individual feather 

 being silvery brown at the base, darker brown in the middle, then crossed by a lunate 

 mark of fulvous, to which succeeds an irregular mark of black, and terminated with 

 fulvous ; under surface paler than the upper, caused by each feather being crossed by 

 three rays of fulvous instead of two, and more largely tipped with that colour ; the 

 feathers of the thighs resemble those of the back ; bill dull yellowish horn-colour ; feet 

 and claws fleshy-brown. 



Total length, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the body, 18 inches ; bill, 

 from the gape to the tip, 3f ; breadth at the gape, | ; tarsi, 2\ ; middle toe and 

 nail, 2\. 

 The wing is even more rudimentary than in the Apteryx Australis. 



