Okdee PASSERES.] 
[Fam. meliphagid^e. 
PEOSTHEM ADEEA NO V^E ZEALANDIiE. 
(TUI OR PARSON BIRD.) 
New-Zealand Creeper, Brown, Ulustr. Zool. pi. ix. (177G). 
Poe Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 682 (1782). 
Merops novae seelandice, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 464 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Merops cincinnatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 275 (1790). 
La Cravate Frisee, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. ii. pi. 92 (1800). 
Sturnus crispicollis , Daud. Traite d’Orn. ii. p. 314 (1800, ex Levaill.). 
Philemon cincinnatus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 613 (1823). 
Prosthemadera concinnata, Gray, List Gen. of B. 1840, p. 3. 
Certhia cincinnata, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 78 (1844). 
Prosthemadera circinata, Reich. Handb. Merop. p. 127, t. ccccxcii. fig. 3466 (1852). 
Meliphaga novae zealandice, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7466. 
Native names. 
Tni and Koko ; the young bird distinguished as Pi-tui or Pikari. 
g pileo toto metallice viridi, collo postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus purpurascentibus : collo undique filameritis 
albis ornato : dorso reliquo et scapularibus cuprescenti-brunneis : ala superne metallice viridi, tectricibus 
alarum paullo purpurascentibus, medianis albo terminatis, fasciam alarem distinctam formantibus : rcmigibus 
nigris, extus viridi metallico lavatis, secundariis latius : cauda nigra, suprh purpurascenti-viridi nitente : 
subtus metallice viridis, versus pectus imum purpurascens : abdomine toto eupreseenti-brunneo : hypo- 
chondriis elongatis laete brunneis : gutture imo fasciculis duobus albis globosis ornato : subalaribus nigris : 
subcaudalibus metallice viridibus : rostro et pedibus nigricanti-brunneis : iride saturate brunnea. 
5 mari similis, sed paullo minor : coloribus sordklioribus : liypochondriis fulvescentioribus. 
Juv. schistaceo-niger : tectricibus alarum medianis ut in adultis albis : collo plus minusve albicante : rictu fiavo : 
iride nigra. 
Male. General plumage shining metallic green, with bluish-purple reflections on the shoulders, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts ; the hind neck ornamented with a collar of soft filamentous plumes, curving outwards and with 
a white line down the centre; the middle of the back and the scapulars bronzy brown, the latter with blue 
reflections ; the greater wing-coverts are metallic green, those near the arm of the wing shining blackish 
purple, and the intermediate ones white in their apical portion, forming a conspicuous alar bar ; the remiges 
are black, the primaries having an outer margin of metallic green iu their basal portion, this colour spreading 
on the secondaries till it covers the whole of the web ; tail-feathers metallic green on their upper surface, 
with purplish reflections ; lower part of breast metallic green changing into purplish blue ; sides and abdomen 
blackish brown, the long flank-feathers shading into pale brown ; under surface of wings and tail black ; 
the under tail-coverts metallic green. The throat is ornamented with two tufts of white filamentous feathers, 
which cirri in upon each other in a globose form. Irides dark brown ; bill and feet blackish brown. Total 
length 12'75 inches; extent of wings 18‘5; wing from flexure 6; tail 5; culmen 1 ; tarsus D35 ; middle 
toe and claw 1*55 ; hind toe and claw 125. 
Female. The female is somewhat smaller than the male ; but the plumage differs in no essential respect. The 
