Oedee PASSEEES.] [Put. MELIPHAGID^E. 



PKOSTHEMADEEA NOV^E ZEALANDIJL 



(TUI OR PARSON BIRD.) 



Neiv-Zealand Creeper, Brown, Illustr. Zool. pi. ix. (1776). 



Poe Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 682 (1782). 



Merops novae seelandice, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 464 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Merops cincinnatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 275 (1790). 



La Cravate Frisee, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. pi. 92 (1800). 



Sturnus crispicollis, Daud. Traite d'Orn. ii. p. 314 (1800, ex Levaill.). 



Philemon cincinnatus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 613 (1823). 



Prosthemadera concinnata, Gray, List Gen. of B. 1840, p. 3. 



Certhia cincinnata, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 78 (1844). 



Prosthemadera circinata, Beich. Handb. Merop. p. 127, t. ccccxcii. fig. 3466 (1852). 



Meliphaga novm zealandice, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7466. 



Native names. 

 Tui and Koko ; the young bird distinguished as Pi-tui or Pikari. 



6 pileo toto metallice viridi, collo postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus purpurascentibus : collo undique fila- 

 mentis albis ornato : dorso reliquo et scapularibus cuprescenti-brunneis : ala superne metallice viridi, 

 tectricibus alarum paullo purpurascentibus, medianis albo terminatis, fasciam alarem distinctam for- 

 mantibus : remigibus nigris, extus viridi metallico lavatis, secundariis latius : cauda nigra, supra pur- 

 purascenti-viridi nitente : subtus metallice viridisj versus pectus imum purpurascens : abdomine toto 

 cuprescenti-brunneo : hypochondriis elongatis laete brunneis : gutture imo fasciculis duobus albis globosis 

 ornato : subalaribus nigris : subcaudalibus metallice viridibus : rostro et pedibus nigricanti-brunneis : 

 iride saturate brunnea. 



$ mari similis, sed paullo minor : coloribus sordidioribus : hypocbondriis fulvescentioribus. 



Juv. schistaceo-niger : tectricibus alarum medianis ut in adultis albis : collo plus minusve albicante : rictu flavo : 

 iride nigra. 



Male. General plumage shining metallic green, with bluish-purple reflections on the shoulders, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ; the hind neck ornamented with a collar of soft filamentous plumes, curving out- 

 wards and with a white line down the centre ; the middle of the back and the scapulars bronzy brown, 

 the latter with blue reflections ; the greater wing-coverts are metallic green, those near the arm of the 

 wing shining blackish purple, and the intermediate ones white in their apical portion, forming a con- 

 spicuous alar bar ; the remiges are black, the primaries having an outer margin of metallic green in 

 their basal portion, this colour spreading on the secondaries till it covers the whole of the web ; tail- 

 feathers metallic green on their upper surface, with purplish reflections ; lower part of breast metallic 

 green changing into purplisb blue ; sides and abdomen blackish brown, the long flank-feathers shading 



