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CEETHIPAEUS NOV-/E ZEALANDIA 



(NEW-ZEALAND CREEPER.) 



New-Zealand Titmouse, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 558 (1783). 



Parus novcB seelandice^ Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1013 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Parus novm zealandio)^ Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 571 (1790). 



Pants zelandicuSy Quoy & Gaim. Voy. de TAstrol. i. p. 210, pL ii. fig. 3 (1830). 



CerfJiij)arus novce zelandice^ Lafr. Eev. ZooL 1842, p. 69. 



Certhiparus novw seelaitdm, Gray, in DiefF. Trav. ii., App. p. 189 (1843). 



Certhiparus macidicaudiis^ Gray, op. cit, ii. p. 189 (1843). 



Parus urostigma, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 90 (1844). 



Certhiparus novm zealandioB, Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 254. 



Native names. — Pipipi and Toitoi. 



6 suprk chocolatino-brunneusj pileo paullulum obscuriore : facie laterah nuchaque cinerascentibus : tectricibus 



alarum dorso concoloribus : remigibus brunBeis^ primariis extus anguste fulvescente hmbatis^ secundariis 

 latius dorsi colore lavatis : cauda rufescenti-cliocolatin^^ rectricibus (duabus mediis exceptis) fascia nigra 

 transnotatis : subtus rufescenti-albus^ corporis lateribus et tectricibus subcaudalibus cliocolatino lavatis : 

 rostro et pedibus pallida brunneis^ unguibus fulvescenti-brunneis : iride saturate brunnea. 



2 mari omnino similis. 



Juv, vix ab adultis distingucnduSj sed magis vinaceo tinctus. 



Adult. Fore part of head^ crown, back^ rump_, and upper surface of wings bright cinereous brown, inclining 

 to rufous j quills light brown, the outer webs tinged towards their base with rufous ; tail-feathers pale 

 rufous, and, with the exception of the two middle ones, crossed on their inner web, about half an inch 

 from the tip, with a broad band of black ; sides of head and nape cinereous grey ; throat, breast, and 

 abdomen rufous white. Bill, tarsi, and toes pale brown; claws lighter brown. Total length 5'25 inches; 

 wing, from flexure, 2*5; tail 3"6; tarsus '75; bill, along the ridge '5, along the edge of lower mandible 

 *6; middle toe and claw *6; hind toe and claw *6, 



Young, Plumage as in the adult, but suffused with vinous brown. 



Obs. The sexes are alike, both as to size and colouring. 



This lively little species is confined to the wooded parts of the South Island*. I met with it in 

 Nelson and in Otago, but more abundantly in the Canterbury Province. On Banks's Peninsula I 

 found it particularly numerous, but I was never able to discover its nest. 



* Captain Hutton, writing from Auckland, in the North Island, states, in a letter to *The Ibis' (1867, p. 379), that 

 Certhiparus novce zealandicB is "one of the commonest birds in the bush about here;" but he was evidently confounding 

 this bird with some other species, probably the weU-known Orihonyx alUcilla. 



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