NORFOLK ISLAND ROBIN. 
white ; primary-quills dark ash-brown ; secondaries similarly coloured but fawn-buff 
at the base ; tail ash-brown, the outer pairs with the middle portion buffy-white on the 
outer web and with a spot on the inner web at the extremity ; chin and sides of the throat 
tinged with pink ; chest and middle of the belly reddish-pink ; breast, abdomen and 
under tail-coverts white ; sides of the body brownish-buff; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries gi'eyish-white ; under aspect of quills ash-brown. Bill brownish-black; eyes 
dark greyish-brown ; feet dark brown. Total length 119 mm.: wing 68, culrnen 11 
tarsus 23, tail 48. Figured. Collected Steels Point, Norfolk Island, on the 23rd of 
October, 1912. 
Another male, either immature or a colour phase, collected at Mount Pitt, Norfolk 
Island, on the 7th of September, 1912, resembles the described female, except that the 
chest is yellowish-orange and not reddish-pink. Bill black, eyes dark brown, feet 
brownish-black. 
Immature. Top of the head and back of the neck dark umber-brown, lighter on the forehead; 
scapulars, mantle, back, rump and upper tail-coverts darker umber-brown ; wing-coverts 
like the head, faintly margined with buff ; primaries and secondaries blackish-brown, the 
outermost primaries uniform, the remainder with a buff bar across the basal half, widest 
on the innermost secondaries ; tail-feathers dark blackish-browm, the outermost pairs 
with the margin of the outer webs buff ; throat, middle of the breast, belly and under 
tail-coverts white ; sides of the chest, sides of the body and flanks reddish-buff ; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries w r hite, tinged with buff. Bill yellowish-black, eyes dark brown, 
feet yellowish-brown. Collected on Mount Pitt, Norfolk Island, on the 7th of September, 
1912. 
Breeding-season. October to January - 
Nest and eggs. The nests are placed in a fork of branches covered with lichens (Usnea artic- 
ulata). They consist of dry, thin stems of small plants, decayed skeleton leaves, moss, etc., 
are decorated outside with flake-like lichens ( Parmelia perlata and Stida spec.) and lined 
with sheeps’ wool and feathers ; they are usually more or less interwoven with the lichen 
covering the twigs. They contain 2 eggs, which were found in October and December, 1912. 
The eggs are glossless greenish-white, spotted with paler and darker brown, and some with 
deeper lying mauve patches ; held against the light they shine through pale green. They 
measure: 18 6 X 15, 18’5 X 15; 18’6 X 15T, 18’5 X 15*5; 19 X 153, 19 X 15i; 
19’6 X 15-5; 18 3 X 55, 18'3 X 45 mm. 
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