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coverts, by having the axillaries, sides, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts strongly washed with yellow, and the subter- 

 minal white bar on the outer pairs of tail-feathers somewhat 

 wider. The iris is black. 



Of three adult examples of this species in the Tring 

 Museum only one is marked " Dunedin, iris dark." 



In P. flaviventris the general colour above is dark olive- 

 brown with a more olive tinge on the lower back and rump, 

 the entire under parts are grey, whitish on the axillaries and 

 middle of the belly, and very faintly tinged with yellowish 

 on the flanks and under tail-coverts. The iris is red. 



The synonymy of this species is as follows : — 



PsEUDOGERYGONE FLAVIVENTRIS. 



Gerygone flaviventris, G. R. Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terror, 

 Birds, p. 5, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1844) ; Sharpe, t. c. Appendix, 

 p. 25 (1875). 



Gerygone aucklandica, Pelz. Reise Novara, Vog. p. 65 (1865) . 

 Gerygone sylvestris, Potts, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst. v. p. 177 

 (1873). 



Pseudogerygone igata, Sharpe (nee Q,, & G.), Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. iv. p. 218 (1879). 



Gerygone flaviventris, Buller, B. New Zeal. i. p. 44 [part.] 

 (1888). 

 The following specimens are in the British Museum : — ■ 

 a. Adult [juv. sk. fide Sharpe]. Bay of Islands, North 

 Island, New Zealand [Lieut. A. Smith). Voyage 

 of the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror.' 



Type of the species. [42.12.16. 39.] 

 b } c. Adult. Bay of Islands (Lieut. A. Smith). Voyage 

 of the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror.' [43.9.16. 11 & 12.] 

 d, e. <$ ? adult. [North Island] (F. Strange). 



Presented by Capt. Stokes, II ,N. 



/. Adult. [North Island.] Zoological Society's Collection. 



Though unable to trace the history of specimen "f" I am 



probably justified in regarding it as having come from North 



Island, as it is precisely similar to the specimens " a-c " ; 



specimens " d & e " are likewise almost certainly from the 



