Order PASSERES.] [Fam. SYLVIIDjE. 



' . ACANTHISITTA CHLOEIS. 



(RIFLEMAN.) 



Citrine Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 464 (1783). 



Sitta chloris, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, pi. 33 (1787). 



Motacilla citrina, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 979 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Sylvia citrina, Lath. Ind. Om. ii. p. 529 (1790). 



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



Acanthiza tenuirostris, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 242. 



Acanthisitta tenuirostris, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1842, pi. 27. 



Motacilla citrinella, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 89 (1844). 



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



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



Native names. 

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



6 ad. supra viridis, uropygio lsetiore, pileo brunneo lavato : tectricibus alarum nigris, extus viridi lavatis : ala 

 spuria nigra, extus albicante : remigibus nigricanti-brunneis, extus viridi (ad basin pennarum lsetiore) 

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

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

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

 neis : iride saturate brunnea. 



$ mari omniuo simihs, sed saturatior : pileo magis brunnescente. 



Juv. supra cinerascenti-brunneus, plumis utrinque nigro marginatis, uropygio olivascente : ala, ut in adultis 

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

 subtus albescens, hypocbondriis flavicantibus, guttui'e 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 yellow on the sides of the body and abdomen ; a streak over 

 and beyond the eyes and a lower-eyelid hinge 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 ; 



