142 WARBLER. 



plumage above yellow, streaked with dusky; the sides of the head, 

 beneath the eye, fore part of the neck and breast, white; the belly, 

 thighs, vent, and rump yellow ; wings black, across the middle a 

 bar of yellow ; tail short, only half an inch in length, rounded at 

 the end, black, the ends of the feathers dull yellow, and when at 

 rest appearing yellow ; crossed with a curved black bar, like a 

 crescent; legs one inch in length, dusky; claws large, and crooked. 

 Inhabits Dusky Bay, New Zealand. 



180— LONG-LEGGED WARBLER. 



Sylvia longipes, Ind. Orn.W. 529. 



Motacilla longipes, Gm. Lin. i. 979. 



Long-legged Warbler, Gen. Syn.iv. 465. Id. Sup. p. 181. Shaw's Zool. x. 721. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an inch 

 long, straight, and black; irides bluish ash-colour; plumage on the 

 upper parts elegant pale green ; forehead, and sides under the eyes, 

 brownish ; sides of the neck ash-colour; above the eye a semicircular 

 white mark ; breast and under parts very pale ash-colour ; thighs 

 and vent greenish ; tail very short, as in the last described ; the legs 

 more than one inch long, and flesh-coloured ; toes and claws stout. 



Inhabits Dusky Bay, and named E Teetee tee poinam. The two 

 last from the drawings of Sir Joseph Banks. 



181— LONG-SHANKED WARBLER. 



Sylvia minima, Ind. Orn. ii. 529. 



Long-legged Warbler, Gen. Sy?i. Sup. 181. Shaw's Zool. x. 722. 



THIS is probably a Variety of the last; length three inches. The 

 colour brown, instead of green ; under parts white. As to size it 



