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plumage of the upper parts chestnut and black. Feathers 

 of the top of the head, hind-neck, mantle, inner scapulars, 

 and innermost secondaries black, widely margined on the 

 sides with chestnut ; primary and secondary quills, wing- 

 coverts, and outer scapulars black, with bars or wedge-shaped 

 marks of chestnut along the margins; marginal coverts 

 uniform reddish-brown ; lower back and rump uniform dark 

 chestnut- brown; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers black, 

 the terminal half margined and the basal half barred with 

 chestnut ; a short whitish eyebrow-stripe extending from the 

 lores to above the eye ; chin, cheeks, and throat greyish ; 

 fore-neck and chest chestnut, spotted with black (in this respect 

 somewhat resembling immature specimens of O.earli); middle 

 of the breast and belly greyish-brown, shading into dull 

 greyish-rufous on the sides and flanks, some of the feathers 

 of the former with the middle barred with chestnut and 

 black ; under tail-coverts chestnut barred with black. 

 Upper mandible slaty-brown ; lower mandible flesh-colour at 

 the base, slate-colour towards the tip ; legs red, darkish 

 brown on the hinder aspect of the tarsus. 



Total length in the flesh 18 inches ; culmen 1*8; wing to 

 end of secondaries 6*5 ; tail 4*6 ; tarsus 2'15. 



Male (type). Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, New Zealand, 

 8th October, 1899. Weight 22| oz. Obtained by Commander 

 R. F. Ayscough, R.N., H.M.S. < Ringdove/ 



1 ' The specimen was shot when feeding along the beach 

 (wooded), close to the water's edge/ 5 — R. F. A. 



Adult female similar to the male. 



Eight examples of Ocydromus procured by Dr. E. A. 

 Wilson on the Macquarie Islands undoubtedly belong to 

 this species, and are no doubt the descendants of birds 

 imported there from Stewart Island. 



Dr. Wilson has kindly furnished me with coloured sketches 

 showing the soft parts of the adult males and females 

 procured in November on the Macquarie Islands : — Iris red ; 

 bill reddish towards the base, dusky along the culmen, and 

 inclining to blackish at the tip ; legs and feet reddish 

 flesh-colour, tarsi brown on the hinder aspect. 



