222 Transactions. — Zoology. 



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. 



I 



Art. XXIII. — Notes on some of the Birds hr ought hy Mr. Henry Tr avers 



from the Chatham, Islands, with Descriptions of the New Species. 



By Capt. F. W. Hutton, G.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, " Yoy. Ereb. and Terr.," Birds, p. 5, PI. TV., fig. 2. 



Two specimens of this species were obtained on Pitt Island, but neither 

 are in good condition ; they diflfer 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, 

 diflfers 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 



