546 On some Bush-birds of New Zealand. 
grey; middle of the breast and belly white; axillaries and 
under tail-coverts white tinged with yellow; sides and flanks 
strongly washed with yellowish-olive. Total length 4°5 inches; 
wing 2°2; tail 20; tarsus 0°8. 
4. PsruDOGERYGONE 1GATAa (Quoy & Gaim.). 
Curruca igata Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l’Astrol., Zool. i. 
p: 201, pl. xi. fig. 2 (1830). 
Geryyone igata Sharpe, Voy. ‘Erebus’ & ‘ Terror,’ Birds, 
App. p. 25 (1875). 
Pseudogerygone igata Lorenz-Liburnau, Ann. Hofmus. 
Wien, xvii. p. 805 (1902). 
Type. Bay of Tasman, north of South Island: Voyage 
of the ‘ Astrolabe.’ 
? Immature. Iris black. Above olive, shading into rufous 
on the rump; lores and eyebrow-stripes whitish; throat, belly, 
and under tail-coverts white, washed with yellow; sides of 
the breast and the flanks yellowish-olive. 
Dr. Lorenz has recorded a pair of P. igata from Termakau, 
west of South Island, October 1877 (A. Reischek). He has 
kindly sent me the female example for examination, and it 
closely resembles the three examples from Dusky Sound 
(Earl of Ranfurly) i the British Museum. 
From these descriptions it seems fairly clear that three, 
or possibly four, species of Pseudogerygone occur in the 
North and South Islands of New Zealand. With the 
material at present available it is impossible to arrive at any 
satisfactory conclusion, but I hope before long to receive a 
suflicient series of specimens for that purpose. 
Key to the Species. 
A. Chin, throat, and breast grey ; belly white; sides 
and flanks tinged with yellowish. Iris crimson. 
IM ar-COVET LS; BLOV an ansale i ofecferoferetel= orein’s)-¥eynie) Sa) oiekeis . LP. flaviventris. 
Ham=COWeTES LINO) mtecyetrs cick lasik eke Gia ot iete P. sylvestris. 
B. Chin, throat, and sides of the breast grey; middle 
of the breast and belly white; sides and flanks 
washed with yellowish-olive. 
Lores conspicuously black ; iris yellowish-pink ....  P. macleani. 
LLovesgrey- ris black? “2 waels newest veers ws) 2 agatn 
