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black, and in the cliin, cheeks, and breast being grey, in all which respects it 

 agrees with G. fiaviventris. 



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 Jiahellifera, Gml. 



R. Jiahellifera, Gray, " Yoy. 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 4 '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). 



