BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 9 
20. ORTHONYX ALBICILLA. Less. C.M. 
White-head. Popokatea. 
Heap, breast, and abdomen, brownish white; back and tail, brown ; 
wing feathers, dark brown. 
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Lgg.—wW hite, faintly speckled with pink ; length, ‘9; breadth, -62. 
North Island only. 
LUGINIDAL Wars.ers. 
Bill, straight and slender ; opening of nostrils exposed ; tarsi, slender. 
SPHENGACUS. Gray. 
BILL, moderate, arched above ; wings, short, fourth and fifth quills 
equal and longest ; tail feathers, long and pointed, stiff, the barbs distant 
and unconnected. In the young the tail feathers are of the ordinary 
form. 
Australia. 
21. SPHENGACUS RUFESCENS. Buller. C.M. 
ABOVE, wings and tail, rufous brown ; below, brownish white ; throat 
tinged with yellow ; a brownish white streak over the eye ; sides of the 
head marked with black. 
is 8 ge Wis, 2° Batons I 2d, 
Chatham Islands only. 
22. SPHEN@ACUS PUNCTATUS. Quoy. and Gaim. CM 
Grass Bird. Matata. 
Axove, yellow brown streaked with black; forehead, rufous, with a 
black streak in the middle of each feather ; below, white spotted with 
black, tinged with fulvous on the flanks and abdomen; tail, brown ; a 
brownish white streak from the nostrils over each eye. 
Was, 675s Was, Zoo eB. ORE Gy 
Vari ies ail ce ais in color. 
Egg.—Ovoid, white, speckled all over with violet and greyish ‘gale 
length, -8 ; breadth, °6. 
Both Islands. 
23. ?>SPHENGACUS FULVUS. Gray. CY.M. 
Asove, bright fulvous streaked with black ; forehead, rufous ; below, 
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