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



Parus urostiymn Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. ]844, p. 90: 



iJiisky Sound, South Isiarid. 

 C'crthiparus iioocezecdandice Bailer, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 130. 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



Note: — Wc have associated these three species together 

 and (juestionably referred them to the Family Paridse. Tiie 

 nomenehiture here adopted is tliat proposed by Hutton 

 (Ibis^ 1903, p. 31), which is undoubtedly correct wherever 

 the birds arc placed. Buller rejected it without any good 

 reason whatever ; lie claimed that the first two species were 

 congeneric, but used Tor them a generic name Clitonyx 

 proposed long after citlier of the others here utilised, and, 

 moreover, instead of preserving Iliitton's generic name, 

 Finschia, for tlic third, continued the incorrect usage of 

 (Jeri/dparns, for which there was no excuse. Until the 

 young are studied aiul specimens in spirits are anatomically 

 examined we cannot hope for any improvement in their 

 elassilication. 



Family liOWDLERIID^T]. 

 Genus ]UJWJ)LE1UA. 



Bowdleria Rothschild, Nov. Zool. vol. iii. 1896, p. 539, 

 note. 1 ^i»s/}i.i i 



Type : wc designate B. panctala (Quoy & Gaimard)./ f*^ ''^^^' 



Bowdleria punctata punctata (Quoy & Gaimard). South 

 Island Fern 13ird. 



Synall axis punctata Quoy & (Jaimard, Voy. de I'Astrolabe, 

 Zool. vol. i. 1830, p. 225, pi. xviii. (ig. 3: Tasnum 15ay, 

 South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



Sj>hemv(tcusfnlvus Gray, Ibis, \S(V2, p. -2'2\ : Tiisnian IJiiy, Soutli 



Island. 

 liowdlvria fuhm Ihillor, Suppl. vol. ii. p. l.'ii. 



Range: — South Island (breeding). 



Bowdleria punctata vealeae Kemp. North Island Fern Bird. 

 Bowdleria punctata vca/cri' Kemp, Austral Avian Record, 

 vol. i. 1912, p. 124: Nortii Island. 



