Order PASSEKES.] 
[Eam. SYLV1ID2E. 
M Y I 0 M 0 I E A MACROCEPHALA. 
(SOUTH-ISLAND TOMTIT.) 
Great-headed Titmouse , Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 557, pi. lv. (1783). 
Parus macrocephalus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1013 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Pachycephalus 1 macrocephalus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 267 (1826). 
IUd pi dura macrocephala , Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 190 (1843). 
Miro forsterorum, Gray, op. cit. ii. p. 191 (1843). 
Miro dieffenbachii , Gray, op. cit. ii. p. 191 (1843). 
Petroica macrocephala, Gray, Voy. Ereb. and Terror, Birds, p. 6 (1844). 
Petroica dieffenbachii, id. op. cit. p. 6, pi. 6. fig. 1 (1844). 
Turdus minutus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 83 (1844). 
Miro macrocephala, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 299 (1850). 
Muscicapa macrocephala, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7465. 
Muscicapa minitta, Ellman, tom. cit. p. 7 465. 
Myiomoira dieffenbachii, Gray, Hand-1, of B. i. p. 229 (1869). 
Myiomoira macrocephala, id. op. cit. p. 229 (1869). 
Native names. 
The same as those applied to the preceding species. 
$ similis M. toitoi, seel macula frontal! alba minore et pectore flavido distinguendus. 
^ similis feminse M. toitoi, sed pectore flavido lavato. 
Adult male. Similar to M. toitoi, except in the colour of the under surface, which is pale lemon-yellow instead 
of being white, deepening to orange where it meets the black of the fore neck, and fading away into 
yellowish white on the vent and under tail-coverts ,• the white frontal spot, moreover, is somewhat less 
distinct than in the former bird. Irides lustrous black. Legs and feet blackish brown, the undei suiface 
and sides of the toes orange-yellow. Total length 5'4 inches; extent of wings 8'5 ; wing, from flexure, 3 2 ; 
tail 2'2 ; bill, along the ridge ’35, along the edge of lower mandible ’55; tarsus ’7 ; middle toe and claw 8, 
hind toe and claw ‘7. 
Female. Similar to the female of M. toitoi, but having the breast and abdomen washed with very pale lemon- 
yellow, and the wing-bar tinged with fulvous. 
Young. In the young of both sexes the yellow is reduced to a scarcely perceptible tinge, and m some examples 
is altogether wanting. In the young male the breast is obscurely mottled with dusky black, and m the 
young female these markings are brown and extend to the flanks. 
Varieties. A very pretty albino specimen, received from Otago, has nearly the whole of the body white, with a 
wash of bright yellow on the head, breast, and abdomen ; on the fore part ol the breast there is a broad 
mark of velvety black, and on the upper surface there are a few scattered feathers of the same ; some of the 
win "-feathers are pure white, the rest are black ; the two middle tail-feathers are white, the outer ones 
black, obliquely crossed with a bar of white; bill and legs as in ordinary specimens. 
Another albino, in the Otago Museum, has the general plumage white, with a faint tinge of brown on the 
