Order PASSEKES.] 
[Fam. SYLYIIDiE. 
MYI0M0IEA TOITOI. 
(NOETH-ISLAND TOMTIT.) 
Muscicapa toitoi, Garnot, Yoy. Coq. i. p. 590, t. xv. fig. 3 (1826). 
Miro toitoi, Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 191 (1843). 
Petroica toitoi. Gray, Yoy. Ereb. and Terror, Birds, p. 6 (1844). 
Myiomoira toitoi, lieich. Syst. Av. Taf. Ixvii. (1850). 
Muscicapa albopectus, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7465. 
Native names. 
Miromiro, Komiromiro, Pimiromiro, Ngirungiru, Pingirungiru, and Pipitori. 
$ supra sericeo-niger : macula frontali conspicua alba : tectricibus alarum plcrumque nigris, medianis brunne- 
scentlbus : remigibus brunneis, primariis iuterioribus ad basin albo maculatis, secundariis magis conspicue 
notatis, plagam albam exhibentibus : caudal nigra, rectricibus tribus exterioribus fere ornnino albis, basi 
pogonii interni et apice pogonii extcrni exceptis nigris : facie laterali, gutture toto et pectore superiore nigris, 
gula vix brunnescente : corpore reliquo subtus albo, basi plumarum nigricante : rostro et pedibus nigricanti- 
brunneis : plantis pedum ilavicantibus : iride nigra. 
$ mari dissimilis : brunnea, subtus albida, hypochondriis brunnescente lavatis : loris et facie laterali brunneis, 
fulvescente variis. 
Adult male. Head, neck all round, and all the upper parts black ; frontal spot, at the base of the upper mandible, 
white ; breast and underparts pure white, the black of the fore neck having a sharply defined lower edge ; 
wing-feathers crossed near their base by an angular patch of white, which is narrow and interrupted on the 
primaries, broad and continuous on the secondaries, the black shafts, however, forming fine intersecting 
lines ; tail black, the three outer feathers on each side crossed obliquely upwards by a broad bar of white, 
which covers more than a third of their surface. Irides and rictal bristles black ; bill and tarsi blackish 
brown ; toes paler, yellow on their inner surface. Total length 5 inches • wing, from flexure, 3 ; tail 2'25 ; 
bill, along the ridge "4, along the edge of the lower mandible - 5 ; tarsus '75 ; middle toe and claw '8 ; hind 
toe and claw - 65. 
Adult female. Upper surface smoky brown, with a minute frontal spot of white ; throat, fore neck, and all 
the underparts greyish white, more or less clouded with dull smoky brown ; wing-feathers blackish brown, 
a bar across the base of the secondaries and some indistinct marks on the webs of the outer primaries 
fulvous white ; tail black, the three outer feathers on each side barred obliquely with white, as in the male. 
Young. In the young male the colours are much duller and browner, and the sharply defined pectoral line is 
wanting ; but the plumage is sufficiently different from that of the female to distinguish the sexes. 
Obs. The sexes do not present any perceptible difference in size. Individuals, however, vary perceptibly. The 
measurements of an ordinary bird are given above ; but a smaller example of the adult male which I shot in the 
Forty-Mile Bush gave the following results : — Length 4'75 inches ; extent of wings 8; wing, from flexure, 
2-75; tail 2; bill, along the ridge '25, along the edge of lower mandible '5; tarsus '75; middle toe and claw '75. 
In both sexes the tongue, palate, and interior of the mouth, as well as the angle, are orange-yellow ; 
differing in this respect from Clitonyx , in which the male bird has a black mouth and the female a flesh- 
coloured one. 
