30 Bangs — Two A T ew Birds from the Island of Molokai. 



The island whence the type of V. coccinea, brought back by Captain 

 Cook, really -came can probably never be known; it seems safe, however, 

 to assume that it was Hawaii, as Captain Cook stopped longer there than 

 at any of the other islands. 



Psittirostra psittacea oppidana subsp. nov. 



Type from the island of Molokai, Hawaiian Islands; Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology No. 15,047. Bangs Collection, adult d\ Collected Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1895, byM. J. Flood. 



Characters. — Similar to true P. psittacea (Gmel.) of Hawaii, and quite 

 as large; larger, therefore, than P. psittacea deppei Rothsch. (now supposed 

 to be extinct) of Oahu. In color somewhat intermediate between the two. 

 The fully adult male compared with fully adult males of true P. psittacea 

 has the upper parts paler, more yellowish, — rather nearer oil-green than 

 olive-green, instead of the reverse; the chest much paler, about gray 

 No. i) of Ridgway, and without darker median streaks to the feathers, 

 instead of gray No. (>, or rarely No. 7, the feathers with darker median 

 streaks; middle of belly with more extended grayish white patch, and 

 sides and flanks dull olive-yellowish instead of oil-green. The adult 

 female is more yellowish, less olivaceous green above and the sides and 

 Hanks are dull olive-yellowish, instead of oil-green. 



Measurements. — Adult cT , type: wing, 07.5; tail, 54; cnlmen, 16.5; 

 tarsus, '2:\. 5. Adult 9,topotype, Xo. 15,018: wing, 93; tail, 57; culmen, 

 15.5; tarsus, L'L'.5. 



Remarks. — Both Wilson and Rothschild seem to have been aware that 

 the Molokai On was not quite the same as that of Hawaii, Wilson saying: 

 " Examples from Molokai do not present any definite points of difference, 

 though perhaps they are somewhat duller beneath"; while Rothschild 

 specially mentions a youngish male in his collection from that island 

 which he considered to be about intermediate between P. jisittacea and 

 P. deppei. 



The three skins — two adult males and one adult female — in our collec- 

 tion from Molokai are all very different from any in a large series, includ- 

 ing many adults and young of various ages from Hawaii. 



