68 Bangs — Unrecorded Specimens of Two Hawaiian Birds. 



the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, although that 

 institution had most of Cassin's Collection of hirds. 



In the JNIuseum of Comparative Zoology there is also a fine 

 pair of Ciridops anna (Dole), one of the very rarest of Hawaiian 

 birds and certainly one of the most beautiful. 



The exact origin of these skins, of excellent make and in 

 perfect preservation, I have been unal^le to learn. They came 

 to the museum with a few other Hawaiian birds — six skins of 

 Acrulocercus nobilis and several petrels and terns — and were 

 catalogued by Dr. J. A. Allen in 1870; names for none but the 

 Moheo being written on the labels or in the register l)y that 

 naturalist. 



Ciridops anna was described by Judge Dole in 1879 and is 

 supposed to be, or perhaps better to have been, confined to the 

 island of Hawaii. It was, until I unearthed our two skins, 

 known by three male specimens only, one now in the Bishop 

 Museum and two in Rothschild's Museum at Tring. The 

 female and young male were unknown. 



Our male, Xo. 10,995, is in full plumage and very closely 

 matches the exquisite plate in \Mlson and Evans, Aves 

 Hawaiiensis. 



Our other specimen, No. 10,987, 1 take to be an adult female. 

 Though a little smaller, it is exactly similar in proportions to 

 the male, but is wholly different in color. It may be described 

 as follows — 



Forehead clothed in stiffened, pointed, semi-erect feathers as 

 in the adult male. Top of head, nape, and sides of head 

 cinnamon washed with dull olive-yellow on forehead and with 

 the lores and a narrow frontal band more dusky; cheeks with 

 paler shaft-stripes to the feathers; lower back grayish cinnamon, 

 gradually passing into the purer color of the head; rump and 

 upper tail coverts olive-yellow; tail dusky, fringed with olive- 

 yellow; j)rimaries blackish, narrowly edged with dark olive- 

 yellow; secondaries more broadly edged with the same, the 

 innermost nearly wholly dark olive-yellow; throat dull cin- 

 namon, the feathers with paler shaft stripes, slightly washed 

 with yellow-olive in lower middle; chest and breast dingy- 

 smoke-gray, somewhat washed with olive, gradually passing 

 into dark olive-yellow on belly; under wing coverts, axillars, 

 under tail coverts and a small ])atch in lower middle belly 



