Finscu.—Further Remarks on some New Zealand Birds. 901 
instance of uniform cyanism in Parrots is found in Brotogerys subcerulens, 
Lawr., which is, I think, only an accidental blue variety of Br. tovi. 
Platycercus rowleyi. Buller. 
As this small form of Pl. nova-zealandie will be scarcely separable from 
those small-sized specimens which Bonaparte called Pl. aucklandicus, I 
suspect that the new appellation must give way to the older, if, indeed, this 
small bird can be considered as a valid species at all. 
Acanthisitta citrina. Grol. 
Having compared again a good series of specimens, I am now inclined 
to believe that the characters pointed out by me, as separating these sup- 
posed different species are not constant, and I do not hesitate to unite A. 
citrina with A. chloris. (Sparm.) 
Gerygone igata. Quoy and Gaim. 
Mr. Sharpe declares, after a careful comparison of the type in the Paris 
Museum, that this species is different from /laviventris, and gives some dis- 
tinguishing characters. Dr. Hartlaub, also, during his recent visit to Paris, 
was kind enough to compare the type with specimens of flaviventris, and this 
learned ornithologist, in accordance with Dr. Oustalet, declares G. igata to 
be positively, and without any doubt, identical with flaviventris, so that this 
latter name will sink to a synonym of the former. The French travellers, 
therefore, who collected the bird in Tasman Bay, have the merit of discover- 
ing this species, which Dr. Buller, notwithstanding the positive statements 
of Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard, refused t0 allow a place in the New Zealand 
- avifauna. 
Aplonis zealandicus. Quoy and Gaim. 
Is an excellent and typical species which I had the pleasure of seeing in 
the Leiden Museum, being one of the typical specimens brought home by 
the Astrolabe expedition. Dr. Hartlaub informs me that there are three 
specimens in the Museum in Paris, all marked Tasman Bay, New Zealand, 
and collected by the French travellers, so that there can be no doubt as to 
the locality. In order to make this remarkable bird known in the Colony, 
I append a description of the Leiden specimen :—Head above, hind neck, 
back and shoulders, obscure earth-brown ; sides of the head and neck and 
under parts, lighter olive-brown grey, paler on the chin and throat; flanks, 
anal region, and lower tail-coverts, rusty-brown (the feathers with pale, 
rusty, apical margins) ; rump and upper tail-coverts darker than the lower, 
the light margins nearly obsolete ; first primary, uniform dark brown, the 
remainder to above the basal half on the external web, dark red-brown, 
internally, light rusty; coverts of the primaries, dark brown, those 
of the secondaries and remainder of wing coverts, lighter; wings from 
beneath, light rusty, the third apical, grey-brown ; lower bei coverts 
