Identifier: transactionsproc61873newz (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ch tawny buff, shading into chestnut onthe secondary coverts and towards the flexure. Remarks.—Mr. Gould, in his account of this species in Australia, statesthat the sexes differ considerably from each other, the female being mottledand of a smaller size than the male; and he gives the following description ofthe former :— Head and back chestmit; wing-coverts very deep tawny,passing into chestnut on the tips of the coverts and secondaries; primariesgrey, tipped with brown ; tail black ; sides of the neck pale chestnut; frontof the throat and the under surface white, with a stiipe of tawny down themiddle, and a small streak of brown in the centre of each feather, the brownhue predominating and forming a conspicuous mark down the throat. Nospecimen has yet been obtained in New Zealand answering to the aboveaccount. The young bird, from which I have taken my description, exhibitsone or two new feathers among the wing-coverts, marked as in the adult with TRANS NZIIiSlTUTE.VOLVI.PlZZI.
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Adult mcole-. % ARDETTA MACULATA, Younff male.. BuLLER.—On Platyceicus unicolor. 121 a broad central streak of blackish brown, thus indicating a transition to themoie variegated plumage ; and Dr. Garland, who dissected the specimen,informs me that it proved to be a male. There is no specimen of Ardetta maculata in the British Museum ; andMr. Gould informs me that his only examples of the bird were sent with therest of his Australian collection to America many years ago. I have not,therefore, had any opportvmity of investigating the subject further in thiscountry. Art. XXYII.—Note on Platycercus unicolor in the British Museum.By Walter L. Buller, D.Sc, F.L.S., etc. (With Illustrations.)(Received hy the Wellington Philosophical Society, March, 1874.)*On my first visit, in company with the late Mr, G. R. Gray, to the finecollection of Parrakeets in the galleries of the British Museum, a mountedspecimen standing on the same shelf with Platycercus novce-zealandice andP. auriceps immedi

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