Graucalus melanops.

G. melanops, Vigors and Horsford; Buller, “Birds of New Zealand,” 1st ed. p. 148, 2nd ed. vol. i. p. 66; Cat. Birds in British Museum, vol. iv., p. 30. Colluricincla concinna, Hutton, Cat. Birds of New Zealand, p. 15 (1871).

Light ash-grey; abdomen and lower tail-coverts white; a broad band of black from the bill through the eye. The two middle tail - feathers dark - grey, lateral ones brownish-black, tipped with white. Quills brownish-black, the outer webs edged with white. Bill and legs black. Length of the wing, 8 in.; of the tarsus, 1.1 in. In the adult bird the forehead, sides of the face and neck, the throat and fore-neck, are black, with a greenish gloss.

The immature bird from Australia is described as having wavy bars of dusky black on the throat, but there are none on any of the three New Zealand examples which I have seen.