PLATYCERCUS ROWLEYI. H7 



whose interest in our local zoology has found expression in a charming little 

 museum of New-Zealand rarities^ among which the unique specimen of the 

 Moa's egg holds a conspicuous place. 



" PlATYCERCUS ROWLEYI, Sp. UOV. 



'^Ad, — P. novcB zealandicB similis sed conspicue minor : prasinus ; occipite ad basin plnmarum celate 

 citrino ; genis et corpore snbtus flavicanti-viridibus ; pileo antico^ macula ante-oculari_, altera 

 supra-auriculari et plumis paucis ad latera uropygii posticis puniceis ; tectricibus alarum dorso 

 concoloribus ; remigibus brunneis^ ala spuria latissime ultramarina ; primariis extus ad basin 

 ultramarine^ versus apicem anguste flavido marginatis ; sub-alaribus cyanescenti-viridibus ; 

 Cauda supra Isete prasina ; subtiis magis flavicante ; maxilla cyanescenti-alba^ versus apicem 

 nigricante^ mandibuM omnino nigricante : pedibus pallide brunneis : iride rubra/'' 



Dr. Otto Finsch says (Trans. New-Zealand Institute, 1875, vol. viii. 

 p. 201) : — 



" Platycercus ROWLEYI, BuUcr. 



" As this diminutive form of Platycercus novce zealandice will be scarcely 

 separable from those small-sized specimens which Bonaparte called P. auch- 

 landicus, I suspect that the new appellation must give way to the older, if, 

 indeed, this lesser bird can be considered as a valid species at all." 



Having compared the type skin, kindly presented to me by Dr. BuUer, 

 with my own original specimen, I find no difference. The Plate is taken 

 from the former. 



