the Imperial Collection at Vienna. 23 



Latham says that he saw several specimens of this species 

 at Mr. Humphries's, of Long Acre, but does not mention that 

 a bird of this species was contained in the Leverian Museum. 



LUSCINIID^E. 



23. Tatare longirostris (Gmel.). (267, 268.) 



T. corpore supra brunnescente olivaceo, uropygio (ob colorem 

 marginum plumarum) flavescente, regione auriculari dorso 

 concolori, tectricibus alarum superioribus majoribus et 

 secundariis ultimis late flavo albido terminatis, remigibus 

 reliquis margine angustissimo flavo, loris, superciliis et 

 gastrseo sulphurescenti-flavis (colore magis intenso quam 

 in Tatare ex Otahiti), in gula et pectore parum olivaceo 

 admixto, rectricibus mecliis brunneis flavido terminatis, 

 lateralibus utrinque 4-5 flavo-albidis, scapis concoloribus, 

 rostro longo subcurvato, maxilla, exclusis marginibus, 

 cornea, his et mandibula pallidis, pedibus flavo-corneis. 

 Longit. 9", alse 4", caudse 3-^", rostri a fronte 13"', a 

 naribus IQ\'", a rictu 18'", tars. 15 (16?)'". 



Differt a T. otaitiensi, Less.*, statura majore, rostro longiore 

 subcurvato, corpore supra (ad uropygium usque) cum 

 regione auriculari unicolori gastrseo intensius flavo et 

 rectricibus lateralibus utrinque 4-5 penitus albidisf. 



Long-billed Thrush, Latham, Gen. Synops. iii. 67. 84 (Mus. 

 Lever, from Eimeo). 



Turdus longirostris , Gmel. Syst. i. 823; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 i. 352. 92. 



Tatare longirostris (Gmel.), Gray, Birds Trop. Isl. Pacif. 

 Oc. 14; Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Central-Polyn. 66 (partim) ; 

 Gray, Hand-1. i. 194 (partim). 



Hab. Eimeo. 



A male (267, Large Flycatcher, then Turdus longirostris) , 

 probably Latham's type, and another specimen (268, Large 



* Gray, B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. 14; Tatare longirostris, Finsch et Hartl. 

 Orn. Central-Polyn. GO (partim). 



t In our specimen five of the rectrices of one side are entirely yellowish 

 white, with the shafts of the same colour, on the other side four are 

 similar and one with brown basal and whitish terminal half, the two me- 

 dian rectrices brown, one with a scarcely visible, the other with a 4-5'" 

 broad terminal whitish spot. 



