Oedee PASSERES.] 



[Fam. SYLVIID^ 



ACANTHISITTA CHLOEIS. 



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Motacilla 



Sylvia citrma, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 529 (1790). 



Sitta punctata, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de I'Astr. i. p. 221, pi. 18. fig. 1 (1830). 



Acanthiza tenuirostris^ Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1841, p. 242. 



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Motacilla 



Acanthisifta tenuirostris, Ellman, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7466. 

 AcantMsitta punctata, Ellman, torn, cit. p. 7466. 



Native names, 

 Tititipounamu, Kikimutu, Kikirimutu, Pihipihi, Piripiri, Tokepiripiri, and Moutuutu. 



6 ad. suprk viridis, uropygio Isetiore, pileo brunneo lavato : tectricibus alarum nigris, extiis viridi lavatis : ala 



spuria nigr^^ extiis albicante : remigibus nigricanti-brunneis^ extus viridi (ad basin pennarum Isetiore) 

 limbatis, secundariis dorsalibus pogonio externo albo conspicue maculatis : cauda nigr^, ad apicem albo 

 viridi lavato maculata : loris, supercilio et facie laterali albidis, strig^ per oculum eunte fusca : subtus 

 albus, vix fulvo tinctus, corporis lateribus flavo lavatis : rostro saturate brunneo : pedibus pallide brun- 

 neis : iride saturate brunnea. 



2 mari omniiio similis^ sed saturatior : pileo magis brunnescente. 



Jvv. suprk cinerascenti-brunneus^ plumis utrinque nigro marginatis, uropygio olivascente : aM ut in adultis 



colorata, sed extus ad basin secundariorum conspicue flava : facie laterali cinerascente^ nigricante varia : 

 subtus albescens^ hypochondriis flavicantibus^ gutture et pectore superiore maculis triquetris nigricanti- 



bus notatis. 



Male. Upper parts dull green, tinged with yellow on the wings and rump ; throat, breast, and underparts 

 generally fulvous white, with a tinge of yeUow on the sides of the body and abdomen ; a streak over 

 and beyond the eyes and a lower-eyelid fringe of fulvous white ; wing-feathers black, edged on their 

 outer webs with green, and crossed with a band of dull yellow immediately below the coverts, which 

 are black; the first tertial white on its outer web; tail-feathers black, tipped with fuscous. Irides and 

 bill dark brown; feet paler brown. Total length 3 inches ; extent of wings 5*25; wing, from flexure, 

 1-5; tail "25; bill, along the ridge "4, along the edge of lower mandible "55; tarsus -75; middle toe 

 and claw "6; hind toe and claw "55. 



Female, Crown, hind neck, and upper part of back olivaceous yellow, each feather margined with brown; 



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