Order PASSERES.] [Fam. SYLVIID^E. 



MIRO LONGIPES. 



(NORTH-ISLAND ROBIN.) 



Muscicapa longipes, Garnot, Voy. Coq. i. p. 594, pi. xix. fig. 1 (1826). 



Myiothera novce-zelandice, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 248 (1828). 



Miro longipes, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 389 (1831). 



Petroica australis, Gray, Voy. Ereb. and Terror, p. 7 (1844). 



Myioscopus longipes, Reich. Syst. Av. Taf. lxvii. (1850). 



Petroica longipes, Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 223. 



Native names. 

 Pitoitoi, Toutou, Toutouwai, and Totoara. 



saturate cinereus, scapis plumarum albidis : macula frontali alba : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : 

 remigibus brunneis, extus cinereo lavatis : cauda nigricante : facie laterali cinerea, albido magis distincte 

 striolata : abdomine medio albicante : corporis lateribus cinereis : subcaudalibus albidis : cruribus 

 cinereis albido terminatis : subalaribus pallide cinereis : primariis intus ad basin albidis : rostro nigri- 

 canti-brunneo, mandibula. brunnescentiore : pedibus pallide brunneis : iride nigra. 



5 pallidior : remigibus brunnescentibus : facie laterali cinerascente, albo striolata : pectore superiore pallide 

 cinerascente, plumis medialiter albido striatis : abdomine albido. 



Adult male. Head, neck, and all the upper surface dark slaty grey, plumbeous beneath ; the shafts of the 

 feathers greyish white, forming rather conspicuous lines on the crown and nape ; a frontal spot at the 

 base of the upper mandible pure white ; rictal bristles black ; throat, fore neck, and sides of the body paler 

 slaty grey ; the lower part of the breast, the middle of the abdomen, the vent, and the under tail-coverts 

 white, blending on the edges with the darker plumage of the surrounding parts ; wing-feathers dull 

 smoky brown, with lighter shafts ; lining of wings and a broad oblique bar on the under surface of all 

 the quills except the first three primaries pure white ; tail-feathers dull smoky brown, the shafts light 

 brown on their upper and white on their under aspect. Irides black ; bill blackish brown ; tarsi and 

 toes pale brown; soles dull yellow. Total length 6 inches; wing, from flexure, 3 - 5 ; tail 2 - 65 ; bill, 

 along the ridge *6, along the edge of lower mandible - 8; tarsus T35 ; middle toe and claw '95 ; hind 

 toe and claw - 8. 



Female. Slightly smaller than the male and with duller plumage ; the upper parts tinged with smoky 

 brown ; the throat, fore neck, and sides of the body lighter, the centre of each feather inclining to 

 greyish white. 



Young. The young of both sexes resemble the female in the comparative brownness of the plumage of the 

 upper parts ; the rictal membrane is largely developed and of a rich orange-colour. 



