433 Messrs. G. M. Matliews and Tom Iredale : 



Family MUSCICAPID^E. 

 Genus MYIOMOIRA. 



Myiomoira Reiclienbach, Syst. A.vium^ 1850, tab. Ixvii. 

 Type (by mouotypy) : M. ioitoi (Lesson) . 



Myiomoira toitoi (Lesson). North Island Tomtit. 



Muscicapa toitoi Lesson^ Manuel d'Ornith. vol. i. 1828^ 

 p. 188 : North Island. 



Synonym : — 



Petrceca toitoi BuUer, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 114. 

 Range: — North Island (breeding). 



Myiomoira macrocephala macrocephala (Gmelin). South 

 Island Tomtit. 

 Parus macrocephalus Gmelin, Syst. Nat, 1789, p. 1013: 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Miio forsterorum Gray in Dieff'enbacli's Travels in New Zealand, 



vol. ii. 1843, p. 191 : same locality. 

 Twdus minutus Forster, Descr. Auim. ed. Liclit. 1844, p. 83 : 



same locality. 

 Petvaca macrocephala Biiller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 114. 



Eange : — South Island (breeding). 



Myiomoira macrocephala dieffenhachii (Gray). Chatham 

 Islands' Tomtit. 



Mho dieffenbachii Gray in DiefiPenbacli's Travels in New 

 Zealand, vol. ii. 1843, p. 191 : Chatham Islands. 



Range : — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



Myiomoira macrocephala marrineri, subsp. n. Auckland 

 Islands' Tomtit. 



Differs from M. m. macrocephala in its larger size (cf. 

 Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 587). Type in the British Museum. 



Range: — Auckland Islands (breeding). 



Note: — In the Suppl. vol. ii. p. 117, Buller included, 

 under the title Petrceca vittata, the record of a bird which 

 Hutton had recognised as appearing to him to be Muscicapa 



