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[Fam. SYLVIID^ 



GERYGONE ALBOFRONTATA. 



(WHITE-FACED WARBLER.) 



alhofrontata 

 albofrontata^ 



Ad. suprk olivascenti-brunneus, pileo obscuriore, uropygio et supracaudalibus Isete et conspicue rufescenti- 



fulvis : tectricibus alarum et remigibus cinerascenti-brunneis, dorsi colore limbatis : rectricibus cine- 

 rascenti-brunneis, versus apicem purpurascenti-nigris et fascia fulvescente transversim notata, pennis 

 duabus centralibus reliquorumque apicibus omniuo cinerascenti-brunneis : fronte, supercilio et facie 

 lateral! albidis, loris et regione parotica brunneo notatis : subtus albicans, abdomine imo et hypocbon- 

 driis flavicantibus : subcaudalibus et tibiis fulvis : subalaribus albicantibus flavido lavatis : iride cruen- 

 tata : rostro brunneo, gonyde pallidiore : pedibus saturate brunneis. 



Adult male. Upper surface rusty brown, lighter on the wings and rump ; the whole of the plumage plum- 

 beous beneath ; forehead, sides of the head, fore neck, breast, and the underparts generally greyish 

 white, tinged with yellow on the flanks and abdomen ; an obscure streak of dusky brown passes through 

 the eyes ; wing-feathers dusky brown, with lighter shafts, margined on their outer webs with yellowish 

 brown; inner lining of wings yellowish white ; tail-feathers rusty brown, tinged with rufous towards the 

 base, darker brown in their apical portion, with the tips paler; the two outermost feathers on each side 

 with a broad subterminal bar of fulvous white, and the two succeeding ones with an obscure triangular 

 spot of fulvous white on the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts rufous brown. Irides blood-red ; bill and 

 feet blackish brown. Total length 575; wing, from flexure, 2*6; tail 3-5; bill, along the ridge -4, 

 along the edge of lower mandible -5 ; tarsus -9; middle toe and claw '65 ; hind toe and claw -65. 



Female. Similar to the male, but slightly smaller, and without the yellow tinge on the underparts. 



This fine species was originally described and figured by Mr. G. R. Gray, in the ' Voyage of the 

 Erebus and Terror/ from a specimen alleged to have been "brought by Dr. Dieffenbach from 



New Zealand." The specimen itse 

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forwarded to me by Dr. Hector. 



I have never met with this bird in New Zealand ; but it is highly probable that the supposed 

 new species of Gerygone lately observed by Mr. Potts and his son in Westland, of which an 

 account will shortly appear in ' The Ibis/ will prove to be the same. Mr. Potts states that 

 the note of this Warbler is readily distinguishable from that of Gerygone Jlaviventris, and that he 



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