318 Capt. F. W. Hutton on 



rougeatre Gorge blanche Cou anterieur, 



poitriue et flancs roussatrcs avec des lignes noires 



Ventre blanc .... Bee mi-parti de brun et de jaune .... 

 Jambes jaunes ; pieds noiratres par-dessus, jaunes en 

 dessous .... Le male a une petite buppe rougeatre .... 

 Pic. Encycl. meth." 



p. 45.— "8. LE CRA.BIER gentil. Ardea audax. Pic. Pyren. 

 PI. xxiv. 



CRABIERmarron.~j 



CRABIER roux. [ Buff. 



GUACCO. J 



"Ce trois especes doivent etre reduite a une seule . . . . 

 Ce Crabier est de la grandeur de V Aigrette .... Tete, 



cou, poitriue et dos jaunes Aigrette longue et 



pendante Ailes, queue et ventre blancs .... Bee 



fort tres-aign, bleu d'azur, noir a la pointe 



Jambes et pieds couleur de chair. Pic. Mem. de 

 Stock, et Encycl. meth?'' 



The words " Pic. Pyren." refer to e Recherches sur la 

 Zoologie des Pyrenees, par Philippe PiCOT. Figures 

 enluminees .... Ouvrage inedit/ according to his 

 "Explication des Abreviations." 



XXIX. — Note on the Genus Certhiparus. 

 By Captain F. W. Hutton, F.R.S. 



Of the three birds included in the genus Certhiparus in the 

 'Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.' (vol. viii. p. 75), three different 

 views have been taken by ornithologists : — 



I. — Lafresnaye, in 1840, placed C. albicillus and C. novce- 

 zealandice in one genus and C. ochrocephalus in another. 

 This view was followed by Gray, in the ' Zoology of the 

 Erebus and Terror' (1848) and by Dr. Finsch in the ' Journ. 

 f. On.' for 1843. 



II. — In 'The Ibis' for 1862 Gray separated C. albicillus 

 from C. novce-zealandim, and included it in Orthonyx along 



