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black, and in the chin, cheeks, and breast being grey, in all which respects it 
agrees with G. flaviventris. 
Miro traversi, Buller. 
Petroica traversi, Hutton, “Ibis,” July, 1872. Miro traversi, Buller, 
“ Birds of N.Z.,” p. 123. 
Entirely black, except the wing feathers, which are brownish. Length, 
6 in. ; wing from flexure, 3:25 ; bill from gape, ‘77 ; tarsus, 1-13. There is 
no difference between the sexes. 
Rhipidura flabellifera, Gml. 
R. flabellifera, Gray, “ Voy. Ereb. and Terr.,” Birds, p. 8. 
One specimen only was procured, which on a second examination I find 
has the white of the tail feathers purer than in specimens from New Zealand, 
those from the North Island especially having the white on the tail more or 
less clouded with brown. 
Platycercus auriceps, Kuhl. 
P. auriceps, Hutton, “ Cat. Birds N.Z.,” p. 19. 
Two specimens, both of which are larger than any that I have seen from 
New Zealand, measuring 11 inches in length, and wing from flexure £7. The 
bill and tarsus are of the same size as New Zealand specimens. 
Chrysococcyx plagosus, Lath. 
Lamprococcyx plagosus, Gould, “ Handbook to Birds of Australia,” I., p. 623. 
The Chatham Island birds have but faint traces of rufous bars on the 
inner web of the second tail feather, thus agreeing, I suppose, with the 
Australian “species and not with the one from New Zealand, but I have no 
Australian specimens for comparison. 
Rallus? modestus, Hutton. 
R. modestus, Hutton, “ Ibis,” July, 1872 
Olivaceous brown, bases of the feathers plumbeous ; feathers of the breast 
slightly tipped with pale fulvous, those of the abdomen and flanks with two 
narrow bars of the same colour ; throat dark grey, each feather slightly tipped 
with brown ; quills soft and short, brown, the first three faintly barred with 
reddish fulvous ; fourth and fifth quills the longest ; tail very short and soft, 
brown ; irides light brown ; bill longer than the head, rather slender, curved 
downwards, brown ; legs dark brown (dry). 
