440 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Synonyms : — 



Myiothera 7iovcB-zelandlce id. ib. : new name for same bird. 

 Miro austmlis Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 122. 



Range: — North Island (breeding). 



Note : — Tardus australis Sparrman, if used at all, must 

 be used for the South Island Robin, as Sparrman Avas a 

 colleague of Forster and was never in the North Island. 

 The illustration is bad but recognisable as referring to this 

 species, though the subspecific characters are not clearly 

 shewn. 



NESOMIRO, gen. nov. 



The species o^ Miro are separated from those of Petroica on 

 account of their much larger size, much stouter and longer 

 bill and longer legs with different coloration ; the group here 

 separated under tlie above name differ more from Miro than 

 Miro does from Petroica, being much smaller than Miro, with 

 a much shorter bill and shorter legs, and again different 

 coloration. Compared with Petroica the species included 

 in Nesomiro have much shorter bills, longer tails, though 

 equivalent wing-length, and much stronger feet, though the 

 metatarsus is of similar length ; the coloration is uuiform 

 black. 



Type : Miro traversi Buller. 



Nesomiro traversi traversi (Buller). Chatham Islands' Robin. 

 Miro traversi Buller, Birds New Zeal. p. 123, June 1872 : 

 Chatham Islands. 



Synonym ; — 



Miro traversi Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 125. 



Range: — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



Nesomiro traversi dannefaerdi (Rothschild). Snares Island 

 Robin. 



Miro dannefcerdi Rothschild, Nov. Zool. vol. i. 1894, 

 p. G88 : Snares Island. 



Synonym : — 



Miro dannefordi Buller, Suppl. vol. ii, p. 125. 



Range : — Snares Island (breeding). 



