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the situation, its harsh cry and powerful beak striking terror into the other 
occupants. 
159. Eudyptula minor. 
Very common in rocky places about Pitt Island, where they live in holes 
and fissures. They usually come on shore about ten at night in the summer, 
and it was very amusing to see the ingenious manner in which they used their 
flippers in climbing. 
Art. XXIIL—WNotes on some of the Birds brought by Mr. Henry Travers 
From the Chatham Islands, with Descriptions of the New Species. 
By Capt. F. W. Hurroy, C.M.Z.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 23rd October, 1872.] 
In the following notes I have alluded only to those birds which are either 
new to our fauna or which have some special point of interest. A complete 
list of the birds known to inhabit the Chatham Islands will be given by 
Mr. H. Travers (see Art. xxii.) as well as descriptions of all the eggs that he 
collected. 
Gerygone albofrontata, Gray. 
G. albofrontata, Gray, “Voy. Ereb. and Terr.,” Birds, P: 6, PL IV- fig.-2. 
Two specimens of this species were obtained on Pitt Island, but neither 
are in good condition ; they differ considerably from the measurements given 
by Mr. G. Gray, but as Dr. Buller says in his “Birds of New Zealand ” that 
the original specimen in the British Museum is labelled as coming from the 
Chatham Islands, there can be no doubt as to their identity. 
Above olivaceous brown ; forehead, over the eye, region of the ears, and 
all the under surface, white ; tinged with yellow on the flanks, abdomen, and 
vent; quills brown, narrowly edged on the outside with olivaceous; secondaries 
the same but with a broader edging ; tail brownish rufous, with a brownish 
black band near the tip, followed on the three outer feathers with a pale 
rufous band ; tips brown ; irides light red. 
Length 4:5 in. ; wing from flexure, 2-25 ; bill from gape, ‘65; tarsus, ‘87. 
In the “Ibis” for last July, Mr. Potts describes a specimen of Gerygone 
procured by him on the west coast of the South Island (see Art. xix), which 
specimen Dr. Buller refers, from Mr. Potts’ description, to G. albofrontata ; ; 
but in this opinion I cannot agree, for Mr. Potts’ specimen, as he describes it, 
differs from G. albofrontata not only in the absence of the white forehead but 
also in the dark colour of the wings, in having the two centre tail feathers 
